Council chiefs have apologised to a 100-year-old woman who is still in hospital a month after doctors said she was well enough to go home.
Gwyneth Lucas is still stuck in the Bristol Royal Infirmary as one of thousands of ‘delayed discharges’ caused by a crisis in the social care sector that her local MP has described as ‘a disgrace’.
Karin Smyth, Labour MP for South Bristol, said the scandal was putting ‘huge unnecessary pressure on the NHS and families’ across the country.
