Delayed discharge law local authorities payments hospital discharge accountability carers community care

The main effects of the Act are: in Part 1, to provide for a local authority to make a payment to the healthcare provider for each day of delay when an NHS patient's discharge from hospital is delayed and the local authority is responsible for that delay; in Part 2, to provide the power to remove, in circumstances set out in regulations, local authorities' power to charge for certain community care and carers' services.