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• The Guardian view on the NHS: set up to fail by being underresourced to meet demand | Editorial

  15-11-2022 19:52
  It is a symptom of the social care crisis that hospitals find it so hard to discharge people who are well enough to leaveThe NHS and social care systems need more money. If there is anything else that they need as much, it is honesty from the government. Post-Covid, the UK’s health systems are in a perilously fragile state. As analysis by the Guardian showed this week, logjams created by delayed discharges appear to be getting worse. An average of 13,600 hospital beds in England are occupi
  
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• Hospital patients are paying the price for social care crisis | Letters

  15-11-2022 18:58
  John Griffiths says he was cured in three weeks, but stuck in hospital for 16, while another reader says the hard-working carers for their disabled son deserve to be paid more. Plus letters from Dr Peter Levin and Les BrightRegarding your article on patients stuck in hospital, I was cured in three weeks, but not discharged for 16 (Up to one in three English hospital beds occupied by patients fit for discharge, 13 November). After three weeks, the nurses who had cared for me when I needed to be c
  
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• NHS staff ‘petrified’ of how bad winter will be at hospitals in England

  15-11-2022 01:01
  Doctors and nurses fear they will be unable to cope with flu, Covid and cost of living crisis, bosses say Doctors and nurses are “absolutely frightened and petrified” about how bad this winter will be for the NHS in England, hospital bosses have revealed.Staff fear services will not be able to cope with a combination of flu, resurgent Covid, winter and the cost of living crisis damaging people’s health, and also the wave of looming strikes over pay. Continue reading...
  
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