Recurring concern
Insufficient social and community care provision to meet care and discharge needs
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Request correctionFirst reported 7 Nov 2014•Latest report 18 Jun 2026
What this concern includes
Includes inadequate capacity, availability or provision of social and community care services where it leaves people without required care or prevents timely, safe discharge from hospital or other care settings.
Not included
- Excludes failures limited to a specific community-care assessment, referral, funding or care-package process where that named process is the unsafe condition.
- Excludes acute hospital, ambulance or primary-care capacity deficiencies unless the assertion specifically identifies inadequate social or community care provision as the contributing unsafe condition.
- Excludes individual care-quality failures after adequate social or community care provision has been arranged.
- Excludes generic health and social care system resource concerns that do not identify insufficient social or community care provision affecting care or discharge.
- Reports
- 31
- Individual concerns
- 35
- Date range
- 2014–2026
- Stated actions
- 110
Distinct published reports
A report can raise multiple concerns
First to latest report issue date
Described in published responses
Reports over time
Reports over time
Reports about this concern issued each year.
* 2026 is projected from reports observed to 7 Sep 2026.
Most frequent recipients
Most frequent recipients
Reports about this concern sent to each recipient.
Concerns and responses across reports
Only concerns grouped under this recurring concern are included. Select any concern, action or position to view the source wording.
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Concerns raised1
Unavailability of social-services support for activities of daily living in prison
This report raised 2 other concerns. They are not shown here because they do not form part of this recurring concern.
Responses linked to these concernsEach statement is shown once, even when linked to more than one concern.
No linked response statementsNo respondent-stated action or position is linked to these concerns in the published data.
Data last updated 7 September 2026