Speeches and questions

27 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with allied health professionals

Any further—? Sorry, Pippa.

27 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with allied health professionals

Thank you. Dai, you wanted to come in.

27 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with allied health professionals

Thanks. I'll just bring Jack in quickly. He wanted to come in with a supplementary.

27 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with allied health professionals

Thank you, Pippa. Dai.

27 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with allied health professionals

Okay. Pippa and then Dai next.

27 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with allied health professionals

Pippa, did you want to come in on this as well? I wasn't sure if I saw your hand go up or not.

27 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with allied health professionals

Calum, I think, wants to kick off on that one.

27 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with allied health professionals

For the record, they're both nodding. Thanks for that. That's really interesting, thank you. Gareth Davies.

27 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with allied health professionals

That's interesting on the sharing of good practice. Why isn't that good practice being shared? What needs to happen for it to be shared?

27 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with allied health professionals

Thanks, Pippa. I'll come back to you, Dai Davies. In your evidence paper, you talked about discharge procedures not always being followed and that some hospitals were worse than others at this. I wonder if you could just elaborate a little more on that.

27 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with allied health professionals

Thank you, Calum. Pippa Cotterill.

27 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with allied health professionals

Yes, thank you. Dai Davies.

27 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with allied health professionals

Lovely. Thanks, all, for being with us. If I kick off with the first question, really, I suppose just some initial views in terms of the scale of the problem when it comes to hospital discharge and the consequences that's having on both hospitals and patient…

27 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with allied health professionals

Welcome back to the Health and Social Care Committee. I move to item 3. This is our second session today in regards to our piece of work, our inquiry, on hospital discharge and patient flow through hospitals, and we've got a number of health professionals…

27 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies

Thank you. Thank you all for your evidence this morning. That's been a really useful session, so we really appreciate your time. We'll send you a record of the proceedings today, and if you want to add to that or add anything further—. This is the first…

27 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies

Thank you, Dr Yvette. And Dr Karl.

27 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies

I expected you might say that. [Laughter.] Dr Yvette.

27 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies

You're all putting your hands up. I suppose the message here from us is that there are short-term and long-term solutions, and ultimately, out of this piece of work, we want to make recommendations to the Government, so we're seeking what those…

27 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies

Thank you, Dr Karl. Nicky Hughes.

27 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies

Who'd like to tackle that one? I can see Dr Karl Davis looking like he wants to answer.

27 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies

That's interesting. Okay, we've got about five minutes left, so please be succinct with answers so we can get finished by 10:35, if that's okay with all. Gareth Davies.

27 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies

Thanks, Dr Yvette. And then, Dr Karl, we haven't got much time left, but—[Interruption.] Please, yes.

27 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies

I'll come back to Karl, then. Dr Yvette.

27 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies

So, rushed discharges, do these occur on some occasions or are they a more significant regular occurrence?

27 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies

No, not at all. Before I come to Gareth, I just wanted to ask a question I asked at the beginning. I didn't really get time to go into this, but it's quite an important one, and I think Dr Karl Davis may have addressed these points. We had lots of responses…