Hospitals are facing increasing “bed blocking” as they consider to deal with an boost in the quantity of patients needing to be admitted as emergencies this winter.
New NHS figures show the total quantity of bed days misplaced since of “delayed transfers of care” – generally induced because social care assistance is not offered to let a fit patient to return property – hit 70,124 final month, the highest December total because the NHS commenced recording the figures in 2010.
The 162,728 delayed discharges so far this winter are nicely up on final winter’s 135,368 equivalent.
Dame Barbara Hakin, deputy chief executive of NHS England, said it was “concerning” that the 103,071 sufferers admitted as emergencies final week was seven,781 higher than at the very same time the yr before and 1,259 up week-on-week.
While the number of cancelled operations fell week-on-week to 1,126, a total of 12,445 have currently been cancelled this winter, up one,220 on the 11,225 seen in the equivalent period twelve months ahead of.
Andrew Gwynne, the shadow wellness minister, said the figures have been “really sad and a direct end result of this government’s brutal cuts to social care”. He mentioned: “Ministers left folks with no the residence care they need and numerous flip to hospital for support. Hospitals are now complete to bursting and sufferers are suffering the unacceptable anguish of having their operation cancelled.”
NHS hospitals encounter record ranges of "bed blocking"
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