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Responsibility discharged?
— [delayed discharge] | | Author(s) | Ruth Winchester |
| Journal title | Community Care, issue 1419, 25 April 2002 |
| Pages | pp 30-32 |
| Keywords | Discharge [hospitals] ; Delayed discharge ; Costs [care] ; Social Services Departments. |
| Annotation | Delayed discharge erodes older people's quality of life and sense of independence. It is also costly and has threatened to derail the government's waiting time targets. This article reports on local councils' reactions to Alan Milburn's decision forcing them to use money announced in the Budget to reimburse hospitals for the cost of delayed discharge. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020513208 A |
| Classmark | LD:QKJ: LD:QKM: QDC: PF * |
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