Almost 1,000 people will be unnecessarily stuck in Greater Manchester NHS hospitals on Christmas Day because of social care gridlock, a health expert has warned.
For months, hundreds of patients well enough to go home have seen their discharges delayed because of a lack of social and community care. Medically fit patients are taking up around one-fifth of the region’s beds, hovering from the late hundreds to 1,000 out of around 5,000 total beds, the Manchester Evening News understands.
Some 972 people in the region’s hospitals are projected to be stuck in hospital this Christmas Day despite meeting the criteria for release, according to analysis of NHS figures by patient discharge experts CHS Healthcare.
