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Baroness Browning to ask His Majesty's Government why Social Service departments are discharging hospital patients to residential care for the first time if they are self-funding; why those patients are being encouraged to (1) contract with, (2) be charged by, and (3) be added to Social Services admissions to private care, instead of Social Service departments contracting directly with the residential home; what changes this practice makes to patients' contractual rights; and what assessment they have made of the impact of this on the viability of the private care home sector.  HL1846

Question HL1846: tabled on 23 January 2024 and due for answer by 6 February 2024

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Baroness Browning to ask His Majesty's Government why Social Service departments are discharging hospital patients to residential care for the first time if they are self-funding; why those patients are being encouraged to (1) contract with, (2) be charged by, and (3) be added to Social Services admissions to private care, instead of Social Service departments contracting directly with the residential home; what changes this practice makes to patients' contractual rights; and what assessment they have made of the impact of this on the viability of the private care home sector.  HL1846
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Baroness Browning
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Life peer