NHS chief reveals 18,000 have been stuck in hospitals for three weeks Around 18,000 people have been stuck in NHS hospitals for more than three weeks because there are no care services in their community, the NHS chief executive revealed today.
Simon Stevens said most of them could be better looked after elsewhere and said it illustrated why the NHS is buckling under growing pressure.
Mr Stevens said Government had to get to grips with the ageing population, warning the growing elderly population was among the biggest challenges in 70 years of the NHS. The Daily Mail
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