🔴 A health chief has called for an end to “temporary fixes” to the NHS crisis after theipaper revealed at least three hospital groups were opening “care hotels” to help ease the pressure on beds
, said longer-term solutions were required to solve the delays in discharging thousands of patients from hospital beds.
Patients at the Royal Cornwall in Truro – Cornwall’s only major acute hospital – face wait times of up to 12 hours, and the trust has only recently been stood down from its latest critical incident. There are around 13,600 beds occupied by people ready to be discharged but awaiting a social care package, up from 11,590 in June.
In Devon, the NHS has booked rooms to accommodate up to 40 patients at the Leonardo hotel in Plymouth.
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