Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support community rehabilitation services to deal with additional demand after the covid-19 outbreak.

The ‘2022/23 priorities and operational planning guidance’ highlighted the transformation of out-of-hospital services, such as community rehabilitation. National funding and increased to core allocations for community services will support systems to provide care for more patients at home, address waiting lists, develop and expand new models of community care and support timely hospital discharge. NHS England and NHS Improvement have prioritised programmes to ensure access to high quality and timely non-acute rehabilitation as close to home and community as possible. Rehabilitation is being embedded as a core community offer which supports recovery and restoration, maintenance and the prevention of deterioration.