Half a million fewer NHS patients to go through A&E under money-saving plans
with people being sent home overnight or without any arrangement for follow-up care in their own homes.
“There is also sometimes a problem of discharge being simply too early, when the patient does require more time in hospital to get well.“As well as reducing admission rates, it will have to show that the same patients are not simply re-presenting at hospital with the same problems in the following days and weeks.”, said: “Nobody wants to spend the night in hospital but it is sometimes the safest place to be.
“It is important people are admitted and discharged on the basis of their health and not because of targets or a shortage of beds.” Prof Stephen Powis, from NHS England, said: “For seriously ill people a hospital stay is often unavoidable, but we know that too many people - particularly the frail and elderly – are ending up trapped on wards for days on end.
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