THE number of beds blocked in hospital as patients wait for care at home care has soared, according to new figures.
A total of 42,684 bed days were lost owing to people waiting for homecare in July up 2,500 on the previous month of June, NHS England’s latest stats show.
Last year emergency funding had helped ease the pressure on wards that contributed to last winter being the worst in NHS history.
The home care delays accounted for well over a third of the 140,000 bed days lost to delayed transfers of care – a rise of 6,000 from June, The Mirror reports.
That means it is edging back up towards January’s high of 151,000.
Many of the 140,000 days lost in July were due to staff shortages.
Patients had to wait for an available medic to deliver “non-acute care” before they could be discharged.
Around 11,000 were down to a combination of social and medical care shortfalls.
A spokesman for the Local Government Association said: “With people living longer, increases in costs and decreases in funding, adult social care is at breaking point. It needs to be put on an equal footing with the health service.”
By 2021 there will be a 30,000 shortfall in care home places, said Sally Copley of the Alzheimer’s Society, adding: “Already there’s not enough care to go around.”
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The cost to the NHS of one hospital bed day is estimated at £312 – compared to an average £91 a day in a care home.
The total cost of bed blocking has been estimated at around £3billion a year.
The Department of Health and Social Care said: “Delays attributable to adult social care have reduced by 43% since February last year.”
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