From the Editor: Care England welcomes hospital discharge funds report
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Care England has welcomed the publication of the The King's Fund report Hospital discharge funds: experience in winter 2022-23.
Timely hospital discharge, particularly as the winter arrives, is an issue of direct relevance to the social care sector, with social care capacity in any given location key to whether (or not) elderly people are able to be discharged from hospital into a social care setting with a minimum of delay.
The The King's Fund report, which is based on interviews with both commissioners and service providers, examines the use of additional government funds made available in winter 2022–23 (including the ￡500m Adult Social Care Discharge Fund). It includes a number of findings, including the short notice of funding, and the short timeframe within which funds had to be spent, which significantly constrained local plans and hampered outcomes.
Recommendations in Hospital discharge funds: experience in winter 2022-23 include the suggestion that one-off, ring-fenced funding from government to reduce delayed discharges should be used on an exceptional basis rather than continuing to follow the pattern of 'recurring non-recurrent' funding seen in recent years. Work must also be done in local health and care partnerships to prioritise the development of shared understanding.
The report concludes with the recommendation that the Department of Health and Social Care should review and improve the way it monitors future funding and involve the national representative bodies for local health and care partners in that process.
In response to the report, Prof Martin Green OBE, chief executive of Care England , the largest and most diverse representative body of independent providers of adult social care in England, said:
"Delayed discharges from hospital remain one of the biggest problems facing our country. This problem is not new. There has been little improvement over the last decade in overcoming this issue. The adult social care sector has called for long-term, transparent funding, joint strategy planning, and shared learning time and time again. It is incumbent not just on systems to build strong relationships across health and care, but also on central government to provide a funding strategy to allow for long-term planning and facilitate the strengthening of partnerships locally and nationally."
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