About a third of beds are blocked at our local DGH by medically fit people who still require community care provision. These are people waiting to go home (or to a home) from an inpatient stay.
Until they go, A&E can't admit people through to the beds they're currently in.
Even if you lie to the population and claim you'll add 7000 beds this winter, those beds aren't staffed. We can't surge 5000 nurses and 2000 support staff out of nowhere. They're all busy.
Until they go, A&E can't admit people through to the beds they're currently in.
Even if you lie to the population and claim you'll add 7000 beds this winter, those beds aren't staffed. We can't surge 5000 nurses and 2000 support staff out of nowhere. They're all busy.