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The Care and Support (Discharge of Hospital Patients) Regulations 2014

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Discharge notice: withdrawal

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7.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a notice withdrawing a discharge notice must be given where the NHS body responsible for the patient considers that it is no longer likely to be safe to discharge the patient on the proposed discharge date.

(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply where the only reason that the NHS body considers that it is no longer likely to be safe to discharge the patient on the proposed discharge date is that the relevant authority has—

(a)not discharged its duty to carry out a needs assessment or (where applicable) a carer’s assessment in relation to the patient; or

(b)not put in place arrangements for meeting some or all of those needs that it proposes to meet under sections 18 to 20 in the case of the patient or (where applicable) the patient’s carer.

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