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Discharging older patients from hospital
— report by the Comptroller and Auditor General | | Corporate Author | National Audit Office - NAO |
| Publisher | National Audit Office, London, 2016 |
| Pages | 61 pp (HC 18 Session 2016/17) |
| Source | Download: https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Discharg... |
| Keywords | Delayed discharge ; Discharge [hospitals] ; Policy ; Coordination ; Government publications. |
| Annotation | Older patients (aged 65+) account for most delayed transfers of care. This report examines the effectiveness of the health and social care system in managing older patients' discharge from hospital. It considers: the scale of delays that older patients experience in hospital (Part One); the extent to which health and social care providers are adopting good practice in discharging older patients (Part Two): and barriers to local health and social care systems working effectively (Part Three). The report notes that 62% of hospital bed days were occupied by older patients in 2014-15; and there was an 18% increase in emergency admissions of older people between 2010-11 and 2014-15. The NAO finds that the NHS spends around £820 million a year treating older patients who no longer need to be there; this could also result in additional annual costs of around £180 million for other parts of the health and social care system. It recommends that the Department of Health (DH), NHS England and NHS Improvement, working with local government partners, should set out how they will break the trend of rising delays to discharge. The focus needs to be on minimising avoidable admissions and inappropriate lengths of stay. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-160527001 E |
| Classmark | LD:QKM: LD:QKJ: QAD: QAJ: 6OA |
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