NHS: Winter Funding - Question

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 11:14 am on 11 January 2018.

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Photo of Baroness Watkins of Tavistock Baroness Watkins of Tavistock Crossbench 11:14, 11 January 2018

My Lords, will the Minister ask the newly named Department of Health and Social Care to consider funding a pilot of four weeks of social care on discharge for frail elderly people to assess whether this would release patient beds and enable in-depth assessments to be made of future needs? This should be done now rather than wait for a full evaluation to be made.