Expand and speed up efforts to shift care to the community, says NHS Confederation

The NHS Confederation is calling on the government to trigger the major funding shift that would ensure that community and home based services become the new “default setting” for most people’s care.

Inpatient treatment in large acute hospitals could then be reserved for people with life threatening illnesses and those requiring complex surgery, it says.

But the confederation, which represents commissioners and providers of NHS services, said that health leaders and ministers would have to be “more open” …