that tune will be in your head all afternoon! time for a look at the weather. we need it to be fine over birmingham. yes, it s not going to be bathed in sunshine for the opening ceremony of the commonwealth games but it is looking dry and timbers easing down from 20 degrees during the course of the ceremony. where we are seeing sunshine today is to the north and north west of scotland. very limited elsewhere. whilst there is a lot of dry weather around, we have also seen some heavy rain so far today, impacting parts of northern england, into southern scotland, thundery rain through the isle of man for a time and it is edging further north. we have high pressure close by so overall, a lot of dry weather and also a weather disturbance has been brought into that wiltshire will continue to feed these outbreaks of rain, slowly a little further north in scotland but still holding the sunny spells in the north and north west. a few patches of rain or showers in wales and south west
bottleneck is so called bed blockers, patients who are well enough to be discharged, but can t be, due to a lack of care beds in the community. for example, in any one day, we have may have up to a third of our patients who could be better cared for in a different setting, such as home, care home or nursing home. 0nce patients are able to leave hospital, they are usually transferred to a nursing home, where a six week assessment of their needs is carried out. this is paid for by the nhs to the tune of up to £1400 a week. before the pandemic, that could be any nursing home of their choice, but now a block contract means only three major providers, including st monica s, can be used in north somerset, bristol or south gloucestershire. so, this is one of your rooms. yes, room 15, it s empty. but this leaves private care homes with a third of their beds lying empty, without the valuable nhs referrals, they say it s hard to stay afloat. we have had families that have been in tears because