NHS bosses are to start paying the relatives of people who stuck stuck in hospital money to help with the costs of looking after them at home.
The new grant scheme is a pilot one that has only previously been tried in Cornwall, and could see people with, mainly elderly, relatives be encouraged financially to help their loved ones return home from a hospital stay - because hospitals in Bristol currently have scores of people who are medically fit to be discharged, but who don’t have the support at home to enable them to leave hospital.
The grant scheme was announced by Healthier Together, the umbrella NHS organisation which includes both NHS hospital trusts in Bristol and Weston, GP surgeries and health centres in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
