bed-blocking

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

BBC News - Home 2011

Throughout all this time the health service's failure to nurse chronic conditions in the community has led to hospital bed-blocking and avoidable emergency readmissions.

Health and social care bill: A dismal alternative to real reform | Editorial 2012

The result is bed-blocking as patients face increasing delays in being discharged from hospital.

One in four hospital patients 'could be recovering at home' 2011

When I arrive she is talking about bed-blocking in NHS hospitals.

The Saturday interview: Toby Ord and Bernadette Young on the joy of giving 2011

Problems with staff pay, violence, bed-blocking, hospice care and the threat of closures were discussed during the tour, which included Nightingale House Hospice, Wrexham, Deeside and Prestatyn community hospitals and Llandudno general hospital.

Archive 2007-09-01 2007

A little bit of starvation can help clear a ward of those bed-blocking dementia cases.

Archive 2005-06-26 Laban 2005

A little bit of starvation can help clear a ward of those bed-blocking dementia cases.

More Doctors Say "Choose Death" Laban 2005

Asylum seeker, economic migrant, bed-blocking, and stakeholder pension reflect the serious side of life; bunny-hugger (a conservationist or animal lover), chick flick (a film appealing to women), gearhead (a car enthusiast), and Grinch (a spoilsport or killjoy) are entries in a more light-hearted vein.

Boing Boing: September 22, 2002 - September 28, 2002 Archives 2002

Sue Essex, the Local Government and Finance Minister, has decided to ring-fence £19.5 million of this money to deal with bed-blocking, despite the expectation amongst councils that they would get an unhypothocated share that they could then use to meet local priorities and which would help them keep Council Tax down in an election year.

Council Tax 2004

The difference though is that in some areas it would have been spent on bed-blocking, in other areas on out-of-County placements for children in care.

That £22 million 2004

Each month the health system in Britain loses about 83,000 hospital days to “bed-blocking” that results when elderly patients who are no longer sick enough to remain in hospital get stuck there because no good care is available outside of it.

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