Question follow-through · 20605
Hospitals: Discharges
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to make the hospital discharge process more efficient.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 17 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 19 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 23 Dec 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
17 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to make the hospital discharge process more efficient.
19 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Dec 2024
Answer published
The Government will improve hospital discharge processes, to tackle delayed discharges, and to make sure people do not spend longer than necessary in hospital, freeing up hospital beds.We will do so by developing local partnerships, working between the Na...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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