Follow-up to PHSO report on unsafe discharge from hospital inquiry
Inquiry
The report looks at the work already carried out by the PHSO (Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman) which highlighted harrowing cases that illustrated the human costs of poor discharge, causing suffering and distress for patients, and anguish for their carers and relatives.
Poor patient discharge can take the form of both delayed transfers of care, where patients are kept in hospital longer than is necessary, and premature or early discharge, where patients are discharged before it is clinically safe to do so, or without appropriate support in place.
3rd Special Report - Follow-up to PHSO report on unsafe discharge from hospital: Government Response to the Committee's Fifth Report of Session 2016–17
3rd Special Report - Follow-up to PHSO report on unsafe discharge from hospital: Government Response to the Committee's Fifth Report of Session 2016–17
Inquiry
Follow-up to PHSO report on unsafe discharge from hospital inquiry
Inquiry
Follow-up to PHSO report on unsafe discharge from hospital inquiry
Witnesses Ruth Hannan, Policy and Development Manager, Carers Trust, Andrew Boaden, Senior Policy Officer, Alzheimer’s Society, and Janet Morrison, Chief Executive, Independent Age; Dr Mark Porter, Council Chair, British Medical Association, Phil McCarvill, Deputy Director of Policy, NHS Confederation, and Janet Davies, Chief Executive and General Secretary, Royal College of Nursing; Ben Gummer MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Care Quality, Department of Health, Jane Cummings, Chief Nursing Officer, NHS England, Dr Mike Durkin, National Director of Patient Safety, NHS Improvement, Sarah Mitchell, Director, Social Care Improvement, Local Government Association, and William Vineall, Director, Acute Care and Quality Policy, Department of Health.