Hospital to Home

Part of 2. Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services – in the Senedd at 2:27 pm on 16 November 2022.

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Photo of Altaf Hussain Altaf Hussain Conservative 2:27, 16 November 2022

Minister, we know that hospitals are struggling to manage their bed capacity, with too many people medically fit for discharge but unable to do so, for a variety of reasons. The hospital-to-home scheme in Bridgend is one initiative from which we should learn, but what other steps is the Minister taking to help people move from hospital, such as more ambitious discharge-to-assess programmes to help not just our hospitals, but most importantly, the individuals whose needs could be better assessed away from the hospital environment?