Great, Britain

The qualifying services prescribed for the purposes of section 15(1) of the Community Care (Delayed Discharges etc.) Act 2003 are intermediate care and community equipment (aids and minor adaptations) services.

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.