Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 16 January 2023.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his oral statement of 9 January 2023 on NHS winter pressures, what measures will be implemented to discharge mental health patients into appropriate settings more quickly.
Integrated care boards and providers of mental health and community inpatient services have been asked to ensure that they have robust discharge processes in place, ensuring that patients who no longer need to be in an inpatient setting are discharged and cared for in more appropriate settings.
We are working with the National Health Service to improve the timely discharge of patients from mental health settings by working with social care partners and implementing the 10 best practice interventions identified by the National Health and Social Care Discharge Taskforce.
The additional £200 million announced on 9 January 2023 will fund short-term NHS step-down care packages. Integrated care boards, working closely with local authorities, will use this to purchase places in care homes and other settings, such as hospices, to help fund wrap-around primary and community health services to support patients’ recovery. Further details on how this funding will be spent will be released shortly.
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