MPs call on Government to address delays in discharging older patients

The Committee of Public Accounts urges new measures to tackle scale and cost of delays in discharging patients from hospital. Read our response.
The report has found that there is a ‘poor understanding of the scale of discharge problems’ and an ‘unacceptable variation in local performance on discharging such patients’.
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Our Response to the Youth Select Committee's report on mental health

Our evidence to the Select Committee helps inform new report on Young People’s mental health.
The Youth Select Committee has today published its report “Young People’s Mental Health”.The Youth Select Committee gathered evidence from a range of witnesses including from Healthwatch network.
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Greater improvement needed in complaints handling, says Health Select

The Health Select Committee's new report on health and social care complaints further highlights the need for greater improvement and culture change in the way that people's complaints and concerns are handled.
The report, Complaints and Raising Concerns, also identifies the need to simplify the confusing complaints system by creating a single gateway for both health and social care complaints.
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