NHS To Buy Up Care Beds To Clear Wards
The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on the Sunday Times.
I can remember, when my late wife had her appendix out in 1967 in Barnet General Hospital, that there were two bed-blockers on the ward, where she was being treated. One had serious dementia.Has it really taken nearly sixty years to sort out this problem?
The Anonymous Widower 
I’d like to think that they were really doing something with a long term prospect but somehow having seen the closure of respite care facilities in the last twenty odd years and knowing that care staff numbers have been dropping I don’t that this initiative is anything but gesture politics.
Comment by fammorris | January 9, 2023 |
Two care homes in Walthamstow have closed in recent years and I believe this has been happening elsewhere thus reducing places where elderly patients can be released to.
Comment by MauriceGReed | January 9, 2023 |