Nearly a quarter of Northampton General Hospital capacity taken up by bed-blockers waiting to be discharged

Nearly a quarter of Northampton General Hospital capacity taken up by bed-blockers waiting to be discharged NHS chiefs say Government plans to tackle bed-blocking do not go far enough as figures revealed nearly a quarter of Northampton General Hospital beds are occupied by patients who do not need to be there.

Latest NHS England data showed 214 people in NGH were medically cleared to leave hospital on August 31.

Those patients should be moved to a care home or offered home support but staff shortages in the sector meant only 45 of those were actually able to go. Northampton Chronicle and Echo