Northampton General Hospital to buy care home places as winter pressures hit A hospital is to start paying for care home places for people waiting to leave the site in a bid to ease what it calls "severe" pressure on beds.
Northampton General Hospital said it needed to double the number of patients with complex needs who left the hospital each day.
Many patients are fit enough to leave hospital but are awaiting social care assessments from the county council.
The hospital said it would spend about £1m on the care home places. BBC Northampton
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