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Making better discharge decisions needs a whole-system approach

Social care and the NHS should analyse Delayed Transfer of Care (DToC) statistics on a system basis rather than at the organisational level so that their true cost becomes clear, says a new analysis from Newton. Dan Peters reports.

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By Dan Peters | 11 March 2019

The regular issuing of Delayed Transfer of Care (DToC) statistics has evolved into a bit of an obsession.

Analysts pore over the figures from NHS England, debating what they mean for practitioners' success at getting people out of hospital beds.

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