HC Deb 07 February 1992 vol 203 cc315-6W
Mr. Kirkwood

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will estimate the number of acute NHS hospital beds that would become vacant if people who are medically ready to leave hospital, and who have been made a firm offer of a place in a residential/nursing home, and were given a social fund community cost grant to bridge the financial difference between the residential fees charged by the receiving home and the current levels of DSS residential/nursing home fees.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

Information is not available to prepare such an estimate.

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