NHS feels the strain as hospital bed-blocking by elderly patients hits record levels

NHS feels the strain as hospital bed-blocking by elderly patients hits record levels Bed-blocking is causing a huge strain on the NHS, with more than one million hospital bed days lost because of delayed discharges in the past year, new figures revealed last night. The Independent

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• Bed-blocking has reached record levels with thousands of healthy people filling much-needed space on hospital wards The Daily Mail