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<p>Despite the National Health Service being busier than ever with hospital admissions,
the majority of patients are discharged quickly. The Government has already taken
significant action to help reduce delayed transfers of care, including providing an
additional £2 billion of funding for social care, setting expectations locally for
reductions in delayed transfers of care and asking the Care Quality Commission to
undertake a series of local system reviews to evaluate the boundary between health
and social care’s functionality. The Department are also working with system partners
to provide a package of support to help local areas improve transfers out of hospital
and reduce delays. Overall, there are 1,827 more beds available each day since February
2017. But there is still more to do.</p><p> </p><p>Data surrounding the proportion
of patients in hospital with a delayed discharge is not collected centrally. NHS England
publishes monthly reports on the total delayed days during the month for all patients
delayed throughout the month and this can be found at their website:</p><p> </p><p><a
href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/delayed-transfers-of-care/statistical-work-areas-delayed-transfers-of-care-delayed-transfers-of-care-data-2018-19/"
target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/delayed-transfers-of-care/statistical-work-areas-delayed-transfers-of-care-delayed-transfers-of-care-data-2018-19/</a></p><p>
</p><p>Data is shown at provider organisation level, from NHS trusts, NHS foundation
trusts and primary care trusts. Data is also shown by local authority that is responsible
for each patient delayed.</p><p> </p><p>No formal assessment has been made of the
cost to the public purse of delayed discharge of a patient.</p>
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