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Hospital bed blocking scandal exposed during coronavirus emergency
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dailyrecord.co.ukThe rapid transfer of elderly hospital patients to care homes during the coronavirus emergency has exposed a “health care scandal” of years of failure to tackle bed-blocking.The claim was made after First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Health Secretary Jeane Freeman both suggested the pandemic prompted immediate efforts to secure care beds for people being kept in hospital longer than needed.The problem of bed-blocking, officially called delayed discharge, describes patients who are ready to leave the ward but have no care package waiting for them.It’s been blamed for adding serious health risks to already vulnerable, normally elderly, people.NHS figures for April show a 30% drop in bed blocking in two months.
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