Nearly one hundred NHS trusts are dealing with fewer Covid patients than so-called ‘bed-blockers’ who are fit to discharge but unable to leave, MailOnline analysis shows.
More than 13,300 hospital beds across the country – or one in seven – were filled with patients declared fit for discharge each day last month, on average. The figure is triple the pre-pandemic average.
For comparison, more than 8,000 patients with coronavirus were being treated in hospital beds on any given day in the last week of September. This tally also overestimates the scale of Covid’s resurgence, given only a third of so-called virus patients are ill because of the infection itself.
In total, some 96 of England’s 121 trusts – 79% – had more bed-blockers in wards than Covid patients, our audit found.
MPs and charities called the statistics laying bare the scale of the country’s bed-blocking jam “worrying”, with the the “busiest time of year for the NHS” just around the corner.
Damning MailOnline analysis last month also revealed up to a third of beds at some trusts, in parts of Bristol, the Midlands and Lancashire, are occupied by patients who do not need to be there.
Experts say the numbers are being driven by a separate crisis in social care, leaving patients left to languish on wards for up to nine months because there is no suitable nursing accommodation or care available for them in the community. Care bosses say a lack of staffing is the biggest issue.
Former Health and Social Care Secretary Therese Coffey vowed to end the scandal, which has soared to record levels and is thought to cost taxpayers roughly £2billion-a-year. Bed-blockers contribute to ambulance delays by preventing patients being passed through A&E while also hampering efforts to tackle the backlog.
She pledged £500million in funding aimed to speed up discharges by using the war chest to attract staff — but charities claimed the funds have yet to be dished out, adding they look ‘too little, too late’ and should be doubled in the coming Autumn Budget.
“Lack of staffing” in care homes “is the biggest issue” – maybe shouldn’t have sacked thousands of them then for being unvaccinated, and made many workers who stayed feel unwanted and abused. Who wants to work in a sector that – already notorious for paying little for challenging work – also makes it an occupational requirement to participate in unwanted, experimental medical treatment?
It comes as the excess death crisis continues, with 1,714 excess deaths in England and Wales registered in the week ending October 21st, according to the ONS, which is 16.8% above the five year average. Of those, 1,245 were attributed to an underlying cause other than COVID-19. This brings the total excess non-Covid deaths since the wave began in April to 22,483.
The autumn booster campaign, like the spring booster campaign, has coincided with a rise in excess non-Covid deaths that may be indicative of vaccine injury or may be due to another as yet unidentified cause.
Stop Press: Oxford’s Professor Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson have repeated their call for a proper investigation into what’s behind the excess deaths this year:
We urgently need a government investigative task force that looks into these deaths. What’s driving them, and what can be done to prevent them? We recommend that the task force comprises two pathologists and coroners, one clinical epidemiologist, a medical statistician, and at least three clinicians, along with a secretariat to keep it going. Most importantly, it is separated from the usual government functions that want to brush any excess events under the carpet.
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Yet another Conservative government responsibility.
Coalition Government ….. Clegg’s fingerprints all over it.
I’m beginning to think I might be OK with this shite because, let’s face it, the sooner they go broke, and the crap hits the fan….perhaps our sensible re-set can go ahead?….I mean they always say when ‘hunger comes through the door, love flies out the window’…maybe they just need to get to rock-bottom, like alcoholics, before they can get better??
I appreciate this will affect us all..but sometimes you just have to pull the plaster off…or maybe this is our Battle of Britain moment..to help future generations….?
Or maybe it’s the bottle of wine talking….?? LOL!!
Like you, I and many have said, things have to get a lot worse before they will start getting better…
It’s only when people are starving that things change. And then they do change, for sure, but for all the wrong reasons – so the outcome usually produces another type of hell.
But my message is not negative, far from it: let the sheep be sheep, just have an eye for their tendency every so often to go completely crazy, en masse.
The light shines out from within individuals who will be free (anarchic). That light will light your way, and be a guide for those who are searching for the light.
By the way, this is not meant as a religion. It’s the opposite. The church has never supported this message. It’s just another of those blasted power structures (which keeps the sheep as sheep, and paying sheep, at that).
I know (almost) everyone here knows this, just for the record
I concur 100%, but I’d concur a bit more if you and Mr Gum would be so kind as to replicate this experiment and then get back to us with your findings. I do believe it would be advantageous to the group in the long run! P.S Perhaps try ‘best of 5’, though it could be deemed unethical…
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1687824144279261184
Let them go broke – but not us! Don’t let them waste our money and resources. The best way to do that is not to let them take it in the first place. Don’t comply!
Sensible reset? Are you high?
Haven’t you heard of the NWO?.
We’ll go broke funding it before they do
‘Proscribe’ is to ban or outlaw, prohibit. Perhaps the author means ‘prescribes’.
According to an internal Philip Morris report, a series of ASI proposals have become policy and been enacted into law. These include:8
Who funds ASI?
This is one of the reasons I have taken the personal decision to (legally) reduce the tax I pay as much as possible. It’s meant re-organising my life along simpler lines and reducing my voluntary spend.
Starve the beast.
I’m quite enjoying depriving the Government of as much of my money as I can.
It has long been known that public sector procurement is utterly hopeless.
“Public procurement costs the Treasury coffers £379 billion a year”
No. It costs the taxpayer £379 billion a year. Indeed, the whole public sector is rapidly becoming an horrendous drain on the taxpayer, with more going in for less and less.
Heaven help us – because this government , nor the next, won’t!