Summary
3.This Act extends only to England and Wales.
4.The main effects of the Act are:
	in Part 1, to provide for a local authority to make a payment to the healthcare provider for each day of delay when an NHS patient’s discharge from hospital is delayed and the local authority is responsible for that delay;
	in Part 2, to provide the power to remove, in circumstances set out in regulations, local authorities’ power to charge for certain community care and carers’ services.