Patients ready for discharge 'could be three times higher than NHS figures suggest'

摘要

The number of patients unable to be discharged from hospital although medically well could be significantly higher than NHS figures show, according to a study by an independent body. The Nuffield Trust, a health policy think-tank, has estimated that far more hospital beds were taken up by patients classed as 'delayed transfers of care' (DToCs) than NHS England's counting system picks up.