Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to ensure that every person who has finished hospital-based treatment has access to specific and tailored follow-up support.

All councils have statutory duties to look after the vulnerable, elderly and disabled people in their area to provide them with support. Support can be specific and tailored in several ways.

Personal budgets and personal health budgets, where appropriate, are one such way of providing individuals with personalised follow up support that best meets their care needs.

If assessed as eligible, in some cases individuals will receive NHS Continuing Healthcare following discharge from hospital.

If an individual is not eligible for NHS Continuing Healthcare, but does need care from a registered nurse within a care home with nursing, then the individual may be eligible for NHS-funded Nursing Care.