Local authorities face charges for delayed discharges

Community Care Market News (News) May 2002Local authorities are to be penalised for not meeting set targets on delayed hospital discharges. Measures to charge councils the cost to the NHS of keeping people in hospital unnecessarily were announced as part of last month’s budget package for social services, in which Chancellor Gordon Brown pledged the…

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