Patients are experiencing unsafe, delayed or untimely discharge due to lack of co-ordination between health, social care and community services.
Patients are experiencing unsafe, delayed or untimely discharge due to a lack of co-ordination between health, social care and community services, according to the latest report by Healthwatch – an independent consumer champion for health and social care.
NHS England has identified that hospitals lost 2,442,014 bed days between June 2010 and March 2015, as patients waited for social care, while figures cited by NICE show an increase of nearly 20%, in the numbers of people needing social care who were delayed in hospital, over the past 2-3 years. The latest reports – including a survey by YouGov and an investigation by Healthwatch – indicate that poor hospital discharge practice is leading to unnecessary patient suffering and millions in wasted resources.
YouGov survey
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