Public Accounts Committee 19 July 2016
- The National Audit Office has estimated a gross cost of around £800 million a year for the NHS of older patients delayed in hospital when they no longer benefit from being there.
- The committee concludes that the DofH NHS England rely too easily on differing local circumstances as a catch-all excuse for not securing improvement in performance and should be doing more to increase the pace of integration and make local accountability systems more effective.
- The DofH, NHS England and NHS Improvement have failed to address long-standing barriers to the health and social care sectors sharing information and taking up good practice resulting in unacceptable variation in local performance.
