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Government pledges extra funds to speed up hospital discharge
Thousands of extra medically fit patients will be discharged from hospitals into community care settings, such as care homes, over the coming weeks to free up hospital beds and reduce pressure on the NHS, the Health and Social Care Secretary, Steve Barclay, has announced. The Government says it will make available up to £200 million of additional funding to immediately buy short-term care placements to allow people to be discharged safely from hospitals into the community where they will receive the care they need to recover before returning to their homes. The move aims to free up hospital beds so people can be admitted more quickly from A&E to wards, reducing pressure on emergency departments and speeding up ambulance handovers. There are currently around 13,000 people occupying hospital beds in England who are fit to be discharged. The additional £200 million, on top of the £500 million Adult Social Care Discharge Fund already announced, will fund maximum stays of up to 4 weeks per patient until the end of March. Integrated care boards will begin booking beds that are most appropriate to patients’ needs. The Government is immediately making available additional £50 million in capital funding to expand hospital discharge lounges and ambulance hubs. Ambulance queues in some areas are made worse due to a lack of physical space. The new money will create new ambulance hubs
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where vehicles can manoeuvre more easily to avoid delays handing over patients. The funding boost will also expand discharge lounges in NHS Trusts, where patients can be moved out of acute beds while they wait to be discharged, freeing up beds in the meantime Trials of six National Discharge Frontrunners
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are also underway across the UK. These areas are rolling out innovative solutions that could help move patients from hospital to home more quickly. For example, one area (Leeds) is looking to improve how local hospital teams are working with community services, such as rehabilitation, to ensure better support is provided for patients after they are discharged.
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Most symptoms or conditions that develop after mild COVID-19 infection linger for several months but return to normal within a year, finds a large study from Israel published by The BMJ. In particular, vaccinated people were at lower risk of breathing difficulties – the most common effect to develop after mild infection – compared with unvaccinated people. These findings suggest that, although the long COVID phenomenon has been feared and discussed since the beginning of the pandemic, the vast majority of mild disease cases do not suffer serious or chronic long term illness. Long COVID is defined as symptoms persisting or new symptoms appearing more than four weeks after initial infection. In March 2022, an estimated 1.5 million people in the UK (2.4% of the population) reported long COVID symptoms – mainly fatigue, shortness of breath, loss of smell, loss of taste, and difficulty concentrating. The overall burden was highest for weakness (an additional 136 people per 10,000) and breathing difficulties (107 per 10,000). Vaccinated people who became infected had a lower risk of breathing difficulties and similar risk for other conditions compared with unvaccinated infected patients.
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