A senior emergency medicine doctor has spoken of his desperation to keep his elderly parents out of hospital. Dr Adrian Boyle, president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said hospitals are like “lobster traps” as they are easy to get into but hard to get out of.
Recent figures show than in October an average of 13,163 hospital beds per day were occupied by people ready to be discharged in a new monthly high, which was just over 300 more than in September according to the PA news agency. Numbers have advanced since June, when the average was 11,590.
In an interview with the Daily Mail, Dr Boyle said: “Hospitals are like lobster traps – they’re easy to get into and hard to get out of. If social care was able to do its job in the way we want it to, these poor people wouldn’t be stranded in hospital.
