Deferred Payment Agreements Report, England - 2019-20

•Top-up information was reported for 3,450 new DPAs within this reporting year, of which 70.7% (2,440) were provided with no top-up.

A DPA was not provided for 1,610 requests, of which 57.2% (920) were due to client reasons.

Source: DPA collection, 2019-20, NHS Digital – see Table 3 in the Reference Data Tables

Reasons for the request (where the request resulted in a DPA being provided) were reported against 3,410 new DPAs in 2019-20, and 55.4% (1,890) of these were bridging loans to allow for the sale of the client’s property.

Source: DPA collection, 2019-20, NHS Digital – see Table 4 in the Reference Data Tables

Of the total new DPAs agreed in 2019-20, the South East region agreed 615 new DPAs, which was the highest figure reported regionally, accounting for 18.0% of the national total.

London agreed 160 (4.7%) new DPAs during the reporting year, which was the lowest number reported regionally.

Source: DPA collection, 2019-20, NHS Digital – see Table 1 in the Reference Data Tables

The North West reported the lowest average value at £10,000 compared with London which reported the highest (£29,000).

Source: DPA collection, 2019-20, NHS Digital – see Tables 1 and 2 in the Reference Data Tables