Recurring concern

Insufficient social and community care provision to meet care and discharge needs

First to latest report 7 Nov 2014 — 18 Jun 2026

Reports that mention this concern
31
Times this concern has been raised
35
Stated actions linked to this concern
110

What this concern includes

Includes inadequate capacity, availability or provision of social and community care services where it leaves people without required care or prevents timely, safe discharge from hospital or other care settings.

What is not included
  • Excludes failures limited to a specific community-care assessment, referral, funding or care-package process where that named process is the unsafe condition.
  • Excludes acute hospital, ambulance or primary-care capacity deficiencies unless the assertion specifically identifies inadequate social or community care provision as the contributing unsafe condition.
  • Excludes individual care-quality failures after adequate social or community care provision has been arranged.
  • Excludes generic health and social care system resource concerns that do not identify insufficient social or community care provision affecting care or discharge.

Reports and published responses 31 reports

See individual reports that have raised this concern, and the actions taken in response

  1. West Yorkshire Eastern

    AI-generated summary

    Barry Horrocks · Prevention of Future Deaths report

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    Report summary

    Barry Horrocks, who had vascular dementia and other physical and mental health problems, was serving a prison sentence at HMP Wakefield when he suffered a cerebral event and died in hospital on 5 April 2013. The principal concern was the lack of coordinated care and suitable support for his deteriorating ability to manage daily living and intimate personal care, including personal hygiene, toileting and medication.

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    Source evidence

    How this individual concern was interpreted

    PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below.

    PFD Monitor interpretation

    Unavailability of social-services support for activities of daily living in prison

    Wider context from the report

    “(2) It was when in Prison that his immediate environment, that is his Prison cell was not in any way adapted to assist with activities of daily living. The ‘Social Services’ input’ which was a vital element of his care obviously could not be replicated whilst he was in prison. Such an input though was needed and necessary for his well-being. ”

    Source location

    Barry Horrocks · Prevention of Future Deaths report
    Page 2 · concerns

    Open source report

Actions and positions describe what organisations say in published responses. Implementation is not independently verified.

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Data last updated 7 September 2026