so one in seven beds, 111,000 people every day in england are well enough to leave hospital but can t. i think some people watching this might be thinking, that is surely a huge waste of nhs resources. just explain why this is happening. so, a multidisciplinary team will say we ve looked at you and we decided you are medically fit to leave hospital, but that doesn t mean you canjust go home and be by yourself. you might need more support from community health services, so you might need a district nurse to be available to come to your house to help clean dressings etc. and much like we ve got pressures with not enough staff in hospital, we don t have enough staff in our community health service or our social care services. one thing that always gets brought up is wages for people in the care sector. so in england, generally, a lot of care workers get paid minimum wage, over 23, that s £9.50 an hour, and a lot of the criticism is, look, these people are doing what is a very difficult
of patients, is 85%, or around 85,000 beds. but this winter, it s been much, much higher, around 94,000 beds have been used up on any average day. one reason for that is because patients are often stuck in hospital, even though they are well enough to leave. over the winter, roughly 111,000 people were in that situation every day in england. that is one in every seven beds taken up by someone who doesn t really need to be there. these are often elderly people, who could leave hospital if care was available for them at home or in a care home. it s what the government describes as the number one problem in the nhs. it says it has made more money available to speed up those discharges out of hospital this winter. sally warren is the director of policy at the independent health think tank the kings fund, and the former head of social care at the department of health.
statement we had to make some difficult decisions. i think you all remember what happened and we had to do some things to get out debt borrowing under control. in spite of all that we privatise the nhs and social care with billions of pounds of extra funding because i know it is your priority and it is my priority and the government s priority and the government s priority too. the question is, and what you want to ask me, it s how you will spend that money to make the difference because we need to improve this. today s plan does that, i believe, there are five specific things we are doing. the first is more capacity. that means 5000 more beds, 800 more ambulances, 100 more mental health ambulances to put more capacity to the system and the second thing is to increase the workforce making sure we have more doctors and more nurses and more types of all professional, and many of you i have met this morning will be here and help us deliver on that, and we want to support you to work as fl
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