Government shows 'striking poverty of ambition' on discharge delays

Government shows 'striking poverty of ambition' on discharge delays  A new report challenges the Government to address the scale and cost of delays in discharging older patients from hospital, concluding: "Patients and the NHS have a right to expect better."

It urges new measures to tackle discharge delays, which are bad for both patients' health and the financial sustainability of the NHS and local government, and finds there is a poor understanding of the scale of discharge problems, with official data substantially under-estimating the range of delays and the number of older patients affected. Public Accounts Select Committee

See also:

• The King's Fund response to the PAC report on discharging older people from hospitals The King's Fund
• Stop making excuses on delays, NHS bosses told BBC News
• NHS heavily criticised for lack of ambition to reduce bed-blocking The Daily Telegraph