A woman who spent nine months in hospital waiting for a suitable care home placement became a "shadow of her former self", her mother has said. Jocelyn Ullmer, 60, from West Sussex, saw her health ...

Technology is being piloted to help free up NHS hospital beds which are occupied by people fit to be sent home, officials have announced. The platform uses artificial intelligence (AI) to help ...

Delays discharging dementia patients from hospital cost the NHS £328million and wasted half a million bed days last year, new analysis reveals. At least a quarter of patients aged 65 and over who ...

Hospitals in England are operating at close to full capacity, with patients facing often facing lengthy waits for admission and ambulances stuck outside emergency departments. Seasonal pressures from ...

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Derriford Hospital's discharge figures show the trust is struggling to send patients who no longer need to be there home. Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust is just one of the hospitals across the country ...

The NHS is in the grip of a bed-blocking crisis with up to one in three patients well enough to be discharged but unable to leave, damning figures show. An average of 13,662 patients a day were stuck ...

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