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Guidance: Adult social care in England statistics: background quality and methodology

Department Of Health

August 11
08:30 2022

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DHSC publishes monthly statistics on adult social care in England. This document sets out information on the context, sources, quality and coverage of the data included in these reports. This document will be updated regularly as further information is added to these reports.

See the monthly statistics for August 2022.

Published 13 May 2021
Last updated 11 August 2022 +show all updates
  1. Updated to add second booster vaccinations and reflect recent changes in the data collection.

  2. Updated to reflect recent changes in the COVID-19 vaccination response rate methodology.

  3. Edited to reflect the recent changes to the frequency of the test and trace publication.

  4. Updated to reflect recent removals of infection prevention and control (IPC) related data fields from Capacity Tracker and changes to the frequency of data inputs.

  5. Updated to reflect changes in the infection prevention control and testing guidance for care settings.

  6. Updated to reflect changes to the testing guidance for care homes.

  7. Updated to reflect the addition of workforce absence rates data.

  8. Published in error. Reverting to January update.

  9. Updated to reflect the addition of workforce absence rates data

  10. Updated with information about the adult social care workforce survey.

  11. Updated to reflect addition of booster rates and changes to response rate methodology.

  12. Updated to reflect addition of flu and COVID-19 booster vaccination data.

  13. Updated to reflect a change in vaccination rate methodology, and updates infection control and testing funds.

  14. Quality section expanded to include more details on accuracy and burden. Also updated to include more information on a methodology change to testing data.

  15. Updated to include the background quality for the statistics.

  16. Updated to include additional methodology about COVID-19 vaccinations and PPE statistics.

  17. Added a link to the monthly statistics.

  18. First published.

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