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Disability charity criticises lack of uptake of bed-blocking support
The Enham Trust has criticised the NHS for not taking up the charity’s offer to help ease bed-blocking in Hampshire hospitals.
The Trust has 10 beds at its Cedar Park facility in Andover, which can be used at £65 per day, significantly lower that the £400 cost to keep patients in acute hospitals.
Bed-blocking, which refers to situations where delays in discharge means beds are unavailable to patients that need them, is estimated to cost the NHS around £820 million per year.
Peta Wilkinson, the charity's chief executive, said it had had five referrals from private hospitals in the last three months but not a single bed had been taken by the NHS.
The charity calculated that the NHS could have saved around £300,000 in the three months since the facilities opened, if it had made the decision to use them.
A spokeswoman for Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust said: "We met with the Enham Trust a few weeks ago to hear about their care unit and are exploring the opportunity to use this service with our commissioners."
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