Bed-blockers: Medically-fit patients to be discharged within 24 hours from NHS hospitals under plan

Bed-blockers: Medically-fit patients to be discharged within 24 hours from NHS hospitals under plan Medically-fit patients may be discharged within 24 hours under NHS plans to tackle bed-blocking.

More than 13,000 hospital beds across the country — one in seven — are currently occupied by patients declared well enough to go home. Some have spent up to nine months on wards.

The years-old crisis, thought to cost taxpayers £2billion every year, has a knock-on effect on ambulance response times and restricts capacity to perform other operations. The Daily Mail

See also:

• NHS looks at plans to speed up discharge of medically fit patients The Independent