Smith announces appointment of bed blocking ‘tsar’

Community Care Market News (News) December 2001The Department of Health has announced the long-awaited appointment of its bed-blocking ‘tsar’. Chief executive of Herefordshire Health Authority, Richard Humphries,will head the Department’s new Health and Social Care Change Agent Team, with a remit to end delayed discharges across the country by 2004.Modelled on the adoption taskforce, the…