NHS: Winter Funding

Baroness Evans of Bowes Park Excerpts
Thursday 11th January 2018

(6 years, 9 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Evans of Bowes Park Portrait The Lord Privy Seal (Baroness Evans of Bowes Park) (Con)
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It is the turn of the Cross Benches.

Baroness Watkins of Tavistock Portrait Baroness Watkins of Tavistock
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My Lords, will the Minister ask the newly named Department of Health and Social Care to consider funding a pilot of four weeks of social care on discharge for frail elderly people to assess whether this would release patient beds and enable in-depth assessments to be made of future needs? This should be done now rather than wait for a full evaluation to be made.