HSJ Editor Richard Vize

NHS discharge planning: lost for words

GPs need timely discharge summaries to provide patients with effective follow-up care, yet they often have to wait weeks for this information. How can medics make sure one hand knows what the other is doing, asks Daloni Carlisle

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