Elderly patients are losing the equivalent of ten years of life by being stuck in hospital unnecessarily, a stark report has claimed.
It reveals the NHS’s bedblocking crisis is now costing more than £2million a day, a total of around £820million every year.
The number of hospital beds taken up by patients who don’t need to be there has soared by a third in two years and the vast majority are aged 65 and over.
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