Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to help ensure that patients receive timely rehabilitation or reablement support when leaving hospital after 31 March 2023.

Working with local authorities and community partners, NHS England has begun to develop and pilot a new approach to intermediate care, including rehabilitation and reablement support. Initial learning emerging from the pilot sites will be available by April 2023, and this will support more widespread adoption and implementation during 2023/24. By autumn 2023, NHS England will develop a new planning framework and national standard for rapid discharge into intermediate care.