Mastodawn

The use of 'escalation areas' in A&E dept.s has become normalised & while the president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine sees this as 'big trouble' until there's a major disaster linked to corridor care, our political class & the news media are focussed elsewhere

The problem as always is the movement of patients through hospital systems, which is slowed down by problems of discharge to social care... & that is not going to be fixed anytime soon.

#NHS #health
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/30/ae-nhs-in-trouble-normalised-corridor-care-says-leading-uk-medic

A&Es in ‘big trouble’ because of ‘normalised’ corridor care, says leading UK medic

Emergency medicine specialist says improved social care and efficiency would help crisis in NHS

The Guardian

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Paul Brownjohn Dec 30

@ChrisMayLA6

I have been wondering for some time why the NHS don't implement some sort of half-way-house care system for patients who are blocking beds in acute medical or surgical wards but who don't need the nursing and medical care provided on a hospital ward. Of course, it might be better still to hand the patients needing a high level of care back to the NHS (as was the case in the past) leaving the local authorities to offer care only to the reasonably fit and healthy elderly.

Bed blocking due to the inability of the local authorities to provide suitable accommodation is paralyzing large parts of the NHS and something needs to be done to address this issue!

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James Tweedie

@Paulos_the_fog @ChrisMayLA6 When my mother was in need of care after a major late life operation she received this via 'hospital at home" service which worked remarkably well. Daily visits (as needed) by doctors and nurses.
https://nhsforthvalley.com/health-services/az-of-services/hospital-at-home/
It seems to be implemented in one form or another by a number of health services in Scotland. Not sure about the rUK NHS.

NHS Forth Valley – Hospital at Home

NHS Forth Valley provides and manages a wide range of health services including hospitals and General Practice with the Forth Valley area of Central Scotland.