Publication, Part of Patient-Led Assessments of the Care Environment (PLACE)

Patient-Led Assessments of the Care Environment (PLACE), 2022 - England

Official statistics

Publication Date:: 23 Mar 2023

Summary

This publication provides the results from the 2022 Patient-Led Assessments of the Care Environment (PLACE) Programme. It includes an interactive report which allows users to explore the data in a variety of ways. We especially welcome your feedback on this product.

PLACE assessments are an annual appraisal of the non-clinical aspects of NHS and independent/private healthcare settings, undertaken by teams made up of staff and members of the public (known as patient assessors). The team must include a minimum of 2 patient assessors, making up at least 50 per cent of the group.

PLACE assessments provide a framework for assessing quality against common guidelines and standards in order to quantify the facility’s cleanliness, food and hydration provision, the extent to which the provision of care with privacy and dignity is supported, and whether the premises are equipped to meet the needs of people with dementia or with a disability.

The PLACE collection underwent a major national review between 2018 – 2019, significantly revising the question set and guidance documentation. Annual review continues before each programme to ensure this collection remains relevant and delivers its aims. The 2019 results established a new baseline, and scores are not comparable with any previously published.

The 2022 programme was heavily impacted by the covid-19 pandemic (so we received fewer completed assessments), further reduced by the need to enforce minimum patient assessor numbers. These results should not therefore be compared with earlier years, including 2019.

Key Facts

1,046 assessments were undertaken in 2022 compared to 1,144 in 2019.

110 assessments were excluded due to missing mandatory assessment components (e.g., external areas) or an insufficient number of patient assessors. Our findings are based on the 936 remaining assessments and results are not comparable with previous years.

Overall, the highest national average domain score was for cleanliness, at 98.0%

A data file containing the excluded assessments is included with the release, but if you use this to calculate indicative scores, you must not compare these to other sites as the assessments were not conducted on an equitable basis to assessments included in the main data file.

Please note that any reports of incorrect data subsequent to publication will be reported in the data quality statement (which will be revised). If possible, we will provide indicative results, but will not be making any corrections due to the complex nature of the question set, scoring and publication products.

Please ensure you always refer to the latest version of the data quality statement.

The current version of the data quality statement is version 2.

27/04/2023: We updated the csv data as the previous version was missing the MUST screening % where organisations had undertaken the audit - this affects only the Organisational Food files. We also updated the PowerPoint report to replace the graph on slide 21 with the correct one, and updated the food quality definitions in the metadata. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

The current version of these files is version 2.

Please note that (a) the "Food" domain is also known as the "Food and Hydration domain" and that (b) Organisation Food and Ward Food are components of the Food domain - the Food score percentages are an overall value calculated from points scored and available from both components.