NHS campaign groups write to new Health secretary in desperate funding plea to ease bed blocking in Shropshire

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'It doesn’t create extra space in overcrowded A&Es, it doesn’t magic into existence the hospital beds that don’t exist, and it doesn’t solve the catastrophic shortfall in social care that stops patients being discharged when they’re medically fit to go.'

Shropshire Needs Ambulances and Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Defend Our NHS wrote to the Minister 24 hours after it was confirmed that 22 out of 23 ambulances serving the county were in queues outside A&Es at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and Telford’s Princess Royal Hospital.

"We believe the allocation of ring-fenced funding to enable safe and timely hospital discharge is the nearest thing we have to a ‘quick fix’ for our broken system," the letter says. Gill George, chairwoman of Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Defend Our NHS, said: ‘This is a stopgap measure.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

 

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