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<p>The Government is investing £600 million this year and £1 billion next year through
the Discharge Fund for local authorities and National Health Service integrated care
boards to spend flexibly based on their local needs. This will include the purchase
of short-term packages of care, community-based reablement capacity and building the
workforce capacity needed to continue to support care users.</p><p> </p><p>We are
also supporting all systems to improve their care transfer hubs through the support
offer set out in the 'Delivery plan for recovering urgent and emergency care', which
includes webinars, actions learning sets and sharing best practice. Care transfer
hubs link across health, social care, the voluntary sector and housing partners to
coordinate complex discharges. This will help to ensure patients are discharged safely
and to the right setting as soon as possible.</p>
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