Hospital discharge funding: why the frosty reception to new money? The latest announcement of an additional £200m to speed up hospital discharge into social care services means that in a matter of months the government has committed a total of £750m to free up beds in beleaguered acute hospitals throughout England. That’s a weighty sum, yet the response from many social care leaders and health professionals has been decidedly mixed, if not hostile. When social care is desperate for resources and hospitals are desperate for beds, why the negativity? The Health Foundation
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