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Discharge “Piecemeal Funding” Will Not Address Health & Care Pressures
The additional £200m pledged by the government for social care discharge is “a piecemeal allocation of funding” in response to “a crisis that is years in the making,” the social care sector has said. The Local Government Association (LGA) said “piecemeal” funding is “no substitute for a strategic approach to the pressure on hospital beds”. Earlier this month (January 9) health secretary Steve Barclay announced that social care providers would receive an extra £200m in funding to support hospital discharge, allowing care providers to buy up more care home beds. On top of
this there will be £50m for capital improvements to hospitals designed to improve patient flow, as Government continues to come under intense pressure to alleviate the crisis in the NHS. Mr Barclay said: “I am taking urgent action to reduce pressure on the health service, including investing an additional £200 million to enable the NHS to immediately buy up beds in the community to safely discharge thousands of patients from hospital and free up hospital capacity, on top of the £500 million we’ve already invested to tackle this issue”.
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