{"id":1124,"date":"2023-01-16T14:15:06","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T14:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauk-co-chair-dr-matt-kneale-in-the-telegraph-talks-about-numerous-bottlenecks-in-hospitals-before-patients-are-sent-home\/"},"modified":"2023-01-16T14:15:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T14:15:06","slug":"dauk-co-chair-dr-matt-kneale-in-the-telegraph-talks-about-numerous-bottlenecks-in-hospitals-before-patients-are-sent-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauk-co-chair-dr-matt-kneale-in-the-telegraph-talks-about-numerous-bottlenecks-in-hospitals-before-patients-are-sent-home\/","title":{"rendered":"DAUK Co-chair Dr Matt Kneale in The Telegraph talks about &#8220;numerous bottlenecks&#8221; in hospitals before patients are sent home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Telegraph has reported that on average, &#8220;around 14,000 patients deemed fit to leave hospital are stuck in beds every day&#8221; and the congestion causing the backlog in A&amp;E departments. \n\nDAUK co-chair Dr Matt Kneale said patients are held up by \u201cnumerous bottlenecks\u201d before being sent home.\n\n\u201cWhile social care shortages are the predominant issue, smaller factors stack up to create a big problem,\u201d he told The Telegraph.\n\n&#8220;Many hospitals have limits on the times their pharmacies are open, he explained, meaning patients can often be stuck on the ward all day, or an extra night, waiting for their medication.&#8221;\n\n&#8220;In his Manchester trust, requests for medication must be completed by 4pm. Dr Kneale said: \u201c[Patients] can be discharged and told to come back, but often that\u2019s not practicable with other comorbidities, or [if they are] unable to travel.&#8221;\n\n\u201cIf a patient is going back to a care home, for example, it wouldn\u2019t be that simple. Occasionally trusts pay for private taxis to deliver medications to patients.\u201d\n\nRead the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2023\/01\/15\/nhs-bed-blocking-fuelled-50-steps-needed-discharge-fit-patients\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Telegraph has reported that on average, &#8220;around 14,000 patients deemed fit to leave hospital are stuck in beds every day&#8221; and the congestion causing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dauk-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}