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Discharge Fund (Projected) (19532) Metric type
- Help text
- Introduced in 2023-24 the Discharge Fund is intended to be used by authorities on interventions that best enable the discharge of patients from hospital to the most appropriate location for their ongoing care.
Funding should prioritise those approaches that are most effective in freeing up the maximum number of hospital beds and reducing bed days lost within the funding available, including from mental health inpatient settings. Discharge to Assess (D2A) and provision of homecare is recognised as an effective option for discharging more people in a safe and timely manner.
Funding can also be used to boost general adult social care workforce capacity, through staff recruitment and retention, where that will contribute to reducing delayed discharges.
In some areas where there are particular delays to discharge of patients with long hospital stays – for instance those with particularly complex care needs – a concerted focus on supporting discharge of these patients may be important to free up hospital capacity.
- Modified
- 16 Feb 2023
- Data last updated
- 14 Feb 2024
- Short label
- Discharge Fund (Projected)
- Status
- Live
- Output precision
- 3
- Polarity
- a high value is good
- Measure
- Pounds (£millions) Projected
- Dataset
- Core spending power
- Collection
- Core spending power
- Source
- Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities
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