NHS ‘will buy more social care beds’ under Labour
The NHS will be encouraged to buy up social care beds in a bid to get medically-fit patients out of hospitals faster, Labour has said.
Labour’s shadow health secretary Wes Streeting said patients currently stuck in NHS beds due to a lack of social care provision “could fill 26 hospitals”.
Mr Streeting said the party will ensure that NHS and social care work together to “spend money more effectively than they currently do”.
The number of patients in hospital beds today unable to be discharged because of a lack of care in the community could fill 26 hospitals.
Wes Streeting
“I went to St Mary’s in Paddington this month where a patient had been stuck in hospital for 60 days, despite being well enough to
