The Relationship between the Prevalence of the Urgent and Emergency Care Vanguard Participance and Delayed Transfers of Care in English Local Authorities
Table 1
UEC vanguard exposure categories.
Exposure to UEC type
High
Medium
Low
Not exposed
No. of LAs in category
13
16
16
105
Mean DTOC days
2711.79
5619.27
3408.65
2363.68
Mean DTOC to 1 k pop
7.11
8.01
6.56
6.98
Mean DTOC to 1 k pop before
6.90
7.40
6.37
5.96
Mean DTOC to 1 k pop after
7.48
9.02
6.87
8.69
Exposure (%)
60+
4.5–60
1–4.5
0–1
Mean exposure (%)
85.44
19.34
2.23
0.16
Note. Before and after indicate the start of the UEC vanguards programme in quarter 3 in 2015, based on a balanced sample of 3,600 obs.