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A BIG rise in patients stuck in Hampshire hospitals after they are ready to go home exposes a “crisis in care”, it has been claimed.
The number of “delayed days” – spent in hospital beds, because patients cannot be discharged – has soared by almost 38 per cent in just 12 months, new figures show.
Among Southampton residents, the number of days beds were blocked unnecessarily jumped from 525 in June last year to 684 last month, a rise of 30.3 per cent.
http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/11383828.Bed_blocking_reaches__crisis__point/
The number of “delayed days” – spent in hospital beds, because patients cannot be discharged – has soared by almost 38 per cent in just 12 months, new figures show.
Among Southampton residents, the number of days beds were blocked unnecessarily jumped from 525 in June last year to 684 last month, a rise of 30.3 per cent.
http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/11383828.Bed_blocking_reaches__crisis__point/