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(S1O-564) The Deputy Minister for Community Care (Iain Gray): The latest estimate is that in the 35,500 staffed NHS beds in Scotland there are 2,015 patients who have, for a variety of reasons, waited two or more days for discharge.
The plan is that the boards will consider applications in blocks and will have six months to get through each block. There has been nothing to specify how long a board will have to consider an application.
Would you consider extending that period, perhaps to 26 or 28 hours, to allow slightly greater flexibility and to enable efficient management of the new system?
Should the bill get through Parliament, we see our absolute priority as being to produce the statutory instruments that will update and restate all the existing legislative requirements, after which we will move progressively to the new provisions.
HMIE has moved to a new inspection regime, which now includes inspections of local authorities as well as a new supportive relationship and partnership with the schools.