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• Up to one in three English hospital beds occupied by patients fit for discharge

  13-11-2022 21:00
  Exclusive: Acute lack of social care means people are not able to leave, often causing their health to worsen‘A doctor told me I could be here for months’: patients stuck in England’s hospitalsAs many as one in three hospital beds in parts of England are occupied by patients who are well enough to be discharged, with a chronic lack of social care meaning many do not have suitable places to go.Guardian analysis of official data shows that on average 13,600 beds across NHS Englan
  
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• ‘A doctor told me I could be here for months’: patients stuck in England’s hospitals

  13-11-2022 21:00
  With up to one in three beds occupied by people fit to leave, we spoke to some of those kept in wards, and their frustrated carersUp to one in three English hospital beds occupied by patients fit for dischargeA Guardian analysis has found that as many as one in three hospital beds in parts of England are occupied by patients who are well enough to be discharged, with a chronic lack of social care meaning many do not have suitable places to go. We spoke to some of those stuck in hospital. Continu
  
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