Record numbers of patients are being readmitted to hospitals in an emergency, NHS figures show The number of people being readmitted to hospital in emergency has hit a record high, NHS figures show.
Patients are being sent home to care for themselves too soon in order to free up beds for others, experts warned.
The provisional data, published for the first time in five years, shows more burden being placed on an already-stretched health force.
Hundreds of thousands of patients were readmitted to hospital as an emergency last year within 30 days of being discharged. The Daily Mail
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