Health and care systems lack a shared understanding of the causes of hospital discharge delays and short-term Government funding fails to address this.
These are the findings of a report by The King’s Fund charity looking at the impact of last winter’s £750m investment by Whitehall in addressing the issue of hospital bed blocking.
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