Delayed discharge grants announced

Health minister Jacqui Smith announced at Community Care Live
2003 allocations for the government’s £50 million delayed
discharge grants.

Local authorities can now start implementing delayed discharge
schemes and expanding older people’s services more immediately.

She added that progress was already being made in delayed
discharges with the overall number going down from 5,700 in July
2002 to just over 4,000 currently. This fell below the national
target of 4,200 in March. The number of over 75s delayed in
hospital has halved from 7,000 in March 1997 and December last year
to 3,500.

Those councils that have achieved the most are those who have
invested money innovatively, said Smith.

“In every area of public services only combining investment with
new ways of working can deliver the improvements that people want
to see,” she added.

Allocations for the delayed discharges grant local
authority/allocation:

Inner London

City of London* 0.012
Camden 0.261
Greenwich 0.294
Hackney 0.286
Hammersmith and Fulham 0.199
Islington 0.250
Kensington and Chelsea 0.176
Lambeth 0.322
Lewisham 0.302
Southwark 0.318
Tower Hamlets 0.279
Wandsworth 0.295
Westminster 0.247

Outer London

Barking and Dagenham 0.227
Barnet 0.340
Bexley 0.209
Brent 0.273
Bromley 0.274
Croydon 0.272
Ealing 0.298
Enfield 0.276
Haringey 0.210
Harrow 0.229
Havering 0.228
Hillingdon 0.256
Hounslow 0.208
Kingston upon Thames 0.128
Merton 0.169
Newham 0.257
Redbridge 0.241
Richmond upon Thames 0.159
Sutton 0.171
Waltham Forest 0.236

Shire Counties

Bedfordshire 0.309
Buckinghamshire 0.393
Cambridgeshire 0.470
Cheshire 0.631
Cornwall 0.554
Cumbria 0.521
Derbyshire 0.792
Devon 0.723
Dorset 0.395
Durham 0.601
East Sussex 0.526
Essex 1.211
Gloucestershire 0.519
Hampshire 1.232
Hertfordshire 1.012
Kent 1.216
Lancashire 1.079
Leicestershire 0.479
Lincolnshire 0.616
Norfolk 0.811
North Yorkshire 0.503
Northamptonshire 0.523
Northumberland 0.332
Nottinghamshire 0.708
Oxfordshire 0.511
Shropshire 0.295
Somerset 0.493
Staffordshire 0.724
Suffolk 0.656
Surrey 1.058
Warwickshire 0.483
West Sussex 0.734
Wiltshire 0.371
Worcestershire 0.490

Shire Unitary Authorities

Bath & North East Somerset 0.163
Blackburn with Darwen 0.129
Blackpool 0.179
Bournemouth 0.191
Bracknell Forest 0.125
Brighton & Hove 0.339
Bristol 0.412
Darlington 0.192
Derby 0.229
East Riding of Yorkshire 0.296
Halton 0.129
Hartlepool 0.103
Herefordshire 0.172
Isle of Wight Council 0.152
Isles of Scilly* 0.003
Kingston upon Hull 0.307
Leicester 0.295
Luton 0.142
Medway 0.176
Middlesbrough 0.144
Milton Keynes 0.155
North East Lincolnshire 0.155
North Lincolnshire 0.144
North Somerset 0.190
Nottingham 0.291
Peterborough 0.144
Plymouth 0.247
Poole 0.134
Portsmouth 0.173
Reading 0.217
Redcar and Cleveland 0.146
Rutland 0.026
Slough 0.109
South Gloucestershire 0.184
Southampton 0.198
Southend-on-Sea 0.181
Stockton-on-Tees 0.166
Stoke-on-Trent 0.291
Swindon 0.145
Telford and The Wrekin 0.138
Thurrock 0.126
Torbay 0.168
Warrington 0.174
West Berkshire 0.118
Windsor and Maidenhead 0.115
Wokingham 0.082
York 0.149

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