NHS: Winter Funding

Baroness Watkins of Tavistock Excerpts

Thursday 11th January 2018 Lords Chamber

[Lord Clark of Windermere (Lab)]

My Lords—

[Baroness Watkins of Tavistock (CB)]

My Lords—

[The Lord Privy Seal (Baroness Evans of Bowes Park) (Con)]

It is the turn of the Cross Benches.

[Baroness Watkins of Tavistock]

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.