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• Medically fit patients waiting months to be discharged from England’s hospitals

  31-08-2022 20:13
  Charities say social care crisis is ‘crippling patient flow’ in hospitals and has created a ‘miserable situation’Patients are waiting up to nine months to be discharged from NHS hospitals in England despite being medically fit to leave, according to “shocking” figures that will pile pressure on ministers to tackle the social care crisis.Health experts say the incredibly long-delayed discharges are yet more evidence of the impact of the shortage of social care
  
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• Jan Dewing obituary

  31-08-2022 13:30
  My friend Jan Dewing, who has died aged 61 of ovarian cancer, was the Sue Pembrey chair in nursing and director of the Centre for Person-centred Practice Research at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, where she was also head of the university’s graduate research school.Jan was a leading scholar in person-centred practice, with a particular focus on care services for people living with dementia; she worked with health and social care teams to ensure care was delivered in a way that respe
  
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