Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 5 September 2022.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what (a) financial and (b) other steps his Department is taking to help reduce waiting times for people transferring into care settings in (i) Coventry North East constituency, (ii) Coventry, (iii) the West Midlands and (iv) England.
The Department has published hospital discharge guidance for local areas which sets out how discharge services should be planned and implemented. Local areas can select the appropriate funding mechanisms, such as the Better Care Fund, to support timely hospital discharge. In 2021/22, Coventry County Council spent £15.3 million on discharge-related programmes to improve transfers of care and patient flow, through the Better Care Fund. This expenditure includes £1.3 million on intermediate care and £13 million to support implementation of the Discharge to Assess/Home First model.
A National Hospital Discharge Taskforce has been established to address delayed discharges, which has launched a national 100-day discharge challenge in all hospital trusts. In the West Midlands, health and care partners are implementing 10 interventions to deliver this challenge, building on existing initiatives such as criteria-led discharge, ward processes and improving system-level demand and capacity. NHS England is providing support to integrated care systems in the region, including Coventry and Warwickshire, Black Country and West Birmingham, Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent, and Birmingham and Solihull. This will include regional masterclasses to increase engagement on a range of discharge-related matters.
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