This Health Foundation report says that community-based services have the potential to reduce NHS costs by promoting early discharge from hospital for patients who no longer need intensive acute care, but are not yet ready to fend for themselves at home. However, for significant cost savings to be realised moving care into the community needs to be associated with active reductions or decommissioning of hospital-based services.
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