5. Ceasing and resuming hospital treatme5. Ceasing and resuming hospital treatment

### 5. Ceasing and resuming hospital treatment If a nursing‑home type patient, or a person referred to in paragraph 4(a), leaves hospital but returns to a hospital, whether or not at the same hospital, not more than 7 days later and is provided with hospital treatment at the hospital, the patient is a nursing‑home type patient for each subsequent day that the patient is provided with accommodation and nursing care, as an end in itself, until the patient ceases to be provided with hospital treatment at a hospital for a period of more than 7 days. Note: If the relevant period of hospitalisation is broken by more than 7 days, clause 2 of this Schedule may again apply to the person.