Social care delayed discharges have cost the NHS a total of £587 million, or £27,000 each and every hour.
As an unprecedented Blyth Valley swing vote came in, one Labour candidate described it as the "worst result Labour could have imagined."
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Nearly 350,000 people spend more than three weeks in hospital placing them at risk of infections and deconditioning.
The largest representative body for independent providers of adult social care warned social care was fast becoming a “doorstep issue."
The merger is expected to be completed by April 1st, 2020 and will see four CCGs join to reduce running costs and allow for single commissioning polices.
A combined government and industry investment of £370 million will deliver 2,700 new PhD places in biosciences and AI.
17 people waited longer than the 18-week permitted window in the NHS East Riding of Yorkshire CCG area between April and June.
The merger proposed sets out efforts to ‘streamline services’ and reduce running costs.
The data shows that 18 children waited longer than the 18-week permitted window for CCGs to deliver a wheelchair after a referral.
The report calls for “renewed political commitment to ensuring a sustainable social care system.”
