bedblockers

Desperate health bosses have taken to checking patients into a hotel to ease pressure on overwhelmed hospital wards.Two floors of the Leonardo Hotel in Plymouth are being used to house up to 40 patients from the city's huge Derriford…

Hospitals are discharging patients into hotels to free-up beds on wards as the NHS battles a shortage of oxygen canisters.At least three NHS trusts in the South West of England are moving patients into 'care hotels' when they no longer…

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 declared well enough to go home. Some have…

Up to a third of beds at England's busiest NHS trusts are occupied by patients who shouldn't be there, according to a startling MailOnline analysis that lays bare the scale of the country's 'devastating' bed-blocking jam.More than 13,000 …