Readmission due to home condition

​Request 860677938

how many hospital discharges were there is 2026 that resulted in a person being readmitted because the house was not suitable for return due to cleaning required

Response​

The requested information is not available to report from the central records held by Health and Care Jersey, as such granular detail of the circumstances surrounding an admission (or re-admission) is not captured in categorisation field options.

Such information may be recorded in individual medical records, however, it is estimated that to manually review records for all patients re-admitted through 2026 to identify whether any were due to unacceptable home conditions would exceed the timescales prescribed in the Freedom of Information (Costs) (Jersey) Regulations 2014. Therefore, Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied in this respect.

Article applied​

Article 16 A scheduled public authority may refuse to supply information if cost excessive

(1) A scheduled public authority that has been requested to supply information may refuse to supply the information if it estimates that the cost of doing so would exceed an amount determined in the manner prescribed by Regulations.