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Social care transfers main winter pressure point
A new poll has found that nearly 80 per cent of hospital doctors believe delays to transferring patients out of hospital is the main pressure point this winter.
The Royal College of Physicians research reveals that the biggest issue is transferring people to social care, with 69 per cent of respondents saying that was the main pressure point. A further 10 per cent said the same about transferring people to community NHS services.
Furthermore, 75 per cent of the 1,466 respondents said they haven’t seen any evidence that the government’s emergency funding for social care is improving the situation.
Andrew Goddard, president of the RCP, said: “Our survey provides a snapshot of the difficulties faced by doctors this winter, especially when they try to transfer patients to more appropriate settings and free-up badly needed hospital beds. It is only by ensuring that social care gets the resources it urgently needs that we can really reduce pressure on hospitals and give our over-worked doctors a break.”
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