English hospital patients are facing record discharge delays because Tories are underfunding the system
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This is what happens when you underfund the health service by billions of pounds ever year, introduce private profit-making firms into the system to soak up they money that is available, and completely ignore the issue of healthcare within the wider community.
Conservative policy on health for the majority of the UK population is:
Don’t get sick.
Hospitals are facing record levels of delays in discharging patients, figures from NHS England show.
There were nearly 185,000 days of delays in July, up a quarter on the same month last year.
The delays are caused by a lack of available care in the community, and mean vulnerable patients are left stuck on wards while arrangements are made for them to be safely discharged.
It comes as the NHS continues to miss its key waiting time goals.
Targets for A&E, cancer care, ambulance response times and routine operations are all being missed – continuing a trend that has been seen in recent months.
Source: NHS England hospital patients face record discharge delays – BBC News
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It’s all part of privatisation by the back door
Yet the fruits of another Tory failure. Screw up on everything they have touched, failed on all they promised / threatened, what a mess, and then the perpetrators have the audacity to walk away from it and leave for another generation to solve and clear-up, if it’s not to late.
Cuts for every service, except finding more benefits for the wealthy, the only provision to be most carefully protected.
At the same time, many patients are being discharged too early, to make room for the next batch, with all of the damage that causes. However dedicated the staff, they can’t do their job properly when there aren’t enough of them and their position is being constantly undermined by unworkable directives. Until of course it is decided that the service is failing, when really it’s being failed; and needs to be replaced by privatisation, which all too often means being sold to Branson.