The NHS has blamed delays in discharging patients for mounting pressure on its services, as hospitals in Greater Manchester continue to report huge wait times and 'very high' numbers of people attending its emergency departments.
Greater Manchester Integrated Care has confirmed to the M.E.N that the pressure from already high levels of bed occupancy and the large number of people presenting to A&E across the region continues to be worsened by the reported delays in discharging people who are well enough to leave to go home or into community services.
This comes after more than a year of high bed occupancy as a result of delays to discharge in Greater Manchester, which has seen medically fit people taking up around one-fifth of the total beds in the region.
