100 beds blocked each day in Sheffield hospitals

[Northerner]

Scores of beds at Sheffield?s hospitals are being taken up by patients well enough to leave but with nowhere to go to.

Figures reveal more than 100 beds a day are unavailable at Sheffield?s adult hospitals despite patients being ready to be discharged.

The bed-blocking is triggered mainly by delays in getting care for people at home or in the community - and limits the number of new patients who can be admitted.

http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/healt...ked-each-day-in-sheffield-hospitals-1-6370957

 

[robert@fm]

In 2011 I was kept in hospital for an extra month solely because of delays in the discharge arrangements. 😡 I missed two films I wanted to see on the big screen as a result of that (I later got them on DVD, but that just isn't the same)...