Almost half the hospital patients in Wigan are still blocking bed spaces despite being well enough to leave, according to recent NHS data. Wrightington, Wigan And Leigh NHS Foundation Trust had a discharge rate of 54 per cent for people in good enough health to be moved on from the hospital as of January 26.
One key issue facing the National Health Service currently is the inability to discharge patients.
However, this statistic is an improvement on data from January 20, which showed WWL’s ratio of dischargeable patients to beds was 17 per cent.
