The state-run health service is under strain following years of relative underinvestment, the fallout from COVID-19 and strike action by frontline staff.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks with a patient at London's Croydon University Hospital.abc.net.au/news/england-rushes-to-discharge-hospital-patients-to-ease-bed-b/101838314England's National Health Service aims to begin discharging thousands of patients into care homes and other settings in the next few weeks in an effort to free up desperately needed beds.
Some patients are being treated in corridors, and ambulances have been queuing outside hospitals to hand over patients to emergency wards, as doctors and nurses struggle to discharge patients amid a shortage of staff and beds. The statement did not say if the NHS in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland would also be putting more funds into care beds.The NHS in England also discharged some patients into other settings during the pandemic, when hospitals sought to clear as many beds as possible for use by patients with COVID-19.
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