Hospitals will send thousands of patients home earlier Thousands of patients will be discharged from hospital more quickly under an NHS drive to free up beds.Up to 18,000 hospital beds are currently occupied by ‘long stay’ patients – those who have been there for at least three weeks.
Simon Stevens, the head of the NHS, has promised to reduce this number by a quarter by November to free up at least 4,000 beds. There are a little over 130,000 beds on the NHS in England, meaning nearly one in eight are occupied by long stay patients. Mail Online
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