Thursday's front page: NHS sending patients to hotels to ease bed blocking TomorrowsPapersToday Exclusive by DavidParsley50:
hospitals across England have between 100 and 200 patients taking up bed spaceIn Devon, the NHS has booked rooms to accommodate up to 40 patients at the Leonardo hotel in Plymouth.
The care hotels in Cornwall and Devon, which will be run by private care providers, are expected to be in use until the end of March.NHS hospitals in Bristol and surrounding areas have also booked hotel accommodation for up to 30 patients until the end of March. According to Age UK, “an excess bed in the NHS” costs around of £2,500 a week. The cost of a care hotel is just under £1,000 per resident each week, while a residential care home costs around £520 a week.
Minutes from an NHS Devon board meeting show it has set aside a total of £9.85m to pay for “enhancing discharge capacity from hospitals” until the end of March, with schemes across the system including care hotels, additional community-based rehabilitation care and support and measures to help people who have complex dementia leave hospital safely.
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