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Implementing reimbursement around discharge from hospital
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health. Health and Social Care Joint Unit
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Health and Social Care Joint Unit
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 15p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Older people should not have to wait o leave hospital when they are ready to do so. The government intends, subject to legislation, to introfduce a system of reimbursement at the point when responsibility for a patient's care transfers from the NHS to social services, by April 2003.
The community care needs of older people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- MORRIS Stella
- Journal article citation:
- Integrate News, 58, March 1996, pp.15-17.
Examines the historical and present day policies relating to care of people with learning disabilities in Scotland. Focuses on the community care needs of older people who have a learning disability.
Ensuring the effective discharge of older patients from NHS acute hospitals: thirty-third report of session 2002-03; report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 18p.
- Place of publication:
- London
On any given day, some 3,500 older patients remain in National Health Service (NHS) acute hospitals after medical staff have declared them fit and safe to be discharged, because arrangements are not complete for them to move on. Many delays are for a few days, but about one-third are for more than 28 days. The Department of Health estimate that delayed discharges cost the National Health Service around £170 million a year (or around £0.5 million for every day of the year), and account for 1.7 million lost bed days annually. Reducing delays has become a Government priority, and was the subject of legislation during the winter of 2002–03. Delayed discharge is as much about the availability of services in the community as what happens in hospital. While hospitals can do much to move patients efficiently through the system, they have to retain them longer than is medically necessary if patients cannot be discharged safely to a more appropriate place. Delays can occur at a number of points, and the most common causes are patients awaiting a care home placement or assessment of needs, problems with transfers to further NHS care, or delays in the availability of public funding. To tackle the problem, successful co-ordination is needed between NHS acute Trusts, Primary Care Trusts, local authority social services departments, and independent sector providers and others.
Sharing the care
- Authors:
- SCHWEHR Belinda, JAMES Kyrie
- Journal article citation:
- Local Government Chronicle, 5.11.99, 1999, pp.18-20.
- Publisher:
- Emap Business
Looks at how changing legislation and the growing need for co-operation between health authorities and social services departments could mean arguments over who pays for what.
Brush with power
- Author:
- CLEMENTS Luke
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 13.4.95, 1995, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Since April 1993 closures of long-stay hospital wards have had a great impact on social services departments, who have had to pick up the bulk of the cost of caring for former patients. Looks at guidance aimed at helping social services deal with this 'cost-shunting'.
Social services law
- Author:
- WILLIAMS John
- Publisher:
- Fourmat
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 338p.
- Place of publication:
- London