Around £180m of the £500m adult social care discharge fund is yet to reach the frontline despite the policy first being announced in September 🔴 Ministers have said they will not speed up the fund to free up bed space despite the crisis in the NHS
Health Secretary Steve Barclay has blamed emergency care delays on the slow pace of discharges from hospital Ministers will not speed up more than a third of its £500m fund to free up NHS bed space despite the crisis in the health service.is yet to reach the frontline despite the policy first being announced in September.
However, the timescale was only set out by the Government in November, two months after the policy was first announced and followingthat the delays to money may not reach NHS trusts in time to avert a serious winter crisis. “This is the point about a lack of grip and a lack of competence,” he told BBC Radio 4’s PM programme.“So it’s probably just about to start hitting the frontline in the coming weeks.
It came as health experts said the Government was wrong to blame backlogs caused by the Covid pandemic for the current crisis.
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