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Originally Posted by Taf
Our local NHS Trust said they would "taper off" scheduled procedures (that would require time on a ward) prior to the winter influx of (flu) patients, only "returning to normal operations" once beds started to be cleared. Day surgeries were not affected, neither were out-patient appointments.
That was for the winter of 2016/2017, and it was successful.
No sign of this policy this winter though.
A big stumbling block that is causing bed-blocking is the lack of council services available to support recovering patients in their own homes. And that is just down to budget management and "austerity".
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Bed blocking is a issue for our department as well, some are on kick beds but again everything is slow to put in motion for outside services often left for the wards themselves to sort out causing hours of lost man hours chasing round just to get a healthy patient off the wards