Building community health and care capacity: Reflections from other countries (Nuffield Trust, 29 August 2023)

Summary

Changing our services so that more care is provided in community settings and people can leave hospital when they are fit for discharge has been an explicit policy aim for decades. Other, similar countries have been on the same mission and have had more success. Why might this be? This new analysis from the Nuffield Trust looks internationally at how our performance compares and how other countries have succeeded in building up community health and care services to understand what England might learn.