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Hospitals in the south west of England have set up "care hotels" to allow them to discharge patients who no longer need to be in hospital but cannot yet be transferred into the social care system. The hotels are staffed by live-in care workers provided by private homecare companies, and patients can expect to stay in the accommodation for around three weeks, although some stay longer. The services have been introduced in the face of intense pressure, with the NHS trying to cope with the care backlog resulting from the covid pandemic, rising influenza and covid-19 cases, and workforce sicknesses and shortages. Hospitals have been unable to discharge medically fit patients as they cannot obtain the further care they need. This has had a knock-on effect across the whole NHS, stopping the flow of patients from emergency departments onto wards and from ambulances into hospitals. 1 In late December more than 36 000 hours were lost to ambulance handover delays in just a week. 2 Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board told The BMJ that it introduced its care hotel, which is staffed by Abicare, in late November 2022 and expects the 30 patient facility to run

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Author

Elisabeth Mahase

Publisher

BMJ

Published

2023

Language

EN

Field

Health Professions (Health Sciences)