Daily Mail

NHS 'bed blocking' crisis laid bare: Up to one in THREE beds are taken up by medically-fit patients with nowhere to go at busiest hospitals

The NHS is in the grip of a bed-blocking crisis with up to one in three patients well enough to be discharged but unable to leave, damning figures show. An average of 13,662 patients a day were stuck ...
Daily Mail

NHS takes on the bed-blocking crisis: Medically-fit patients may be discharged within 24 HOURS under plan to tackle £2billion/year scandal

Medically-fit patients may be discharged within 24 hours under NHS plans to tackle bed-blocking. More than 13,000 hospital beds across the country — one in seven — are currently occupied by patients ...
The Independent

NHS looks at plans to speed up discharge of medically fit patients

NHS England is looking at new plans to speed up the discharge of people stuck in hospital beds who are medically fit to leave. Hospitals are under increasing pressure due to delayed discharges – where ...