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Hospital bed-blocking ‘rising’

8 November 2011 Last updated at 01:25“No-one should be made to stay in hospital longer than necessary

By Nick Triggle Health correspondent, BBC News
Bed-blocking had been falling for much of the past decade until recently

Patients are facing increasing delays in being discharged from hospital, figures obtained by the BBC suggest.

The problem – known as bed-blocking – happens when support from social care or district nursing is not available in the community for vulnerable patients.

Department of Health data shows that in the last two months, there were more than 128,000 days of delays in England, up 11% on the same period last year.

Why are there not enough nurses to Care?

‘Armchair experts must face the facts – staffing levels affect care’

1 November, 2011

Debates about care failings must include staffing levels, insists Jane Ball

The “crisis in nursing” debate is reaching a crescendo. The latest Care Quality Commission report on the quality of hospital care has sparked reaction and comment from every corner – the radio, on TV, the newspapers and even in my local shop. Everyone has a view about the trouble with nursing today.

‘Unfinished care revolution’ lets disadvantaged groups down

The report adds: “The better-off have been more able to take advantage of the increased health investment than the less well-off

 

Report by Iain Duncan Smith’s thinktank slams hospitals as ‘untherapeutic and dangerous places’ for mentally ill people

The Centre for Social Justice report says that the changes in care, which abolished the distinction between psychiatric and other hospitals, are flawed.

The “unfinished revolution” of care in the community has failed the most disadvantaged people in society, according to a report.