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What's the deal?
— [delayed discharge fines] | | Author(s) | Natalie Valios |
| Journal title | Community Care, no 1506, 22 January 2004 |
| Pages | pp 28-30 |
| Source | http://www.communitycare.co.uk |
| Keywords | Discharge [hospitals] ; Delayed discharge ; Costs [care] ; Social Services Departments. |
| Annotation | The idea of delayed discharge fines is said to be based on a policy implemented in Sweden 10 years ago, but there responsibility for healthcare rests with local government. Now that fines for delayed hospital discharge have arrived, are social and services working together, or has the reimbursement scheme led to "an unproductive culture of buckpassing and mutual blame", as forecast in a report by the House of Commons Health Committee. The article considers whether the new system will benefit older people. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040223201 A |
| Classmark | LD:QKJ: LD:QKM: QDC: PF |
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