{"id":40994,"date":"2023-01-16T20:34:35","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T20:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=40994"},"modified":"2023-01-16T20:34:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T20:34:35","slug":"nhs-bed-blocking-fuelled-by-50-steps-needed-to-discharge-fit-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/01\/16\/nhs-bed-blocking-fuelled-by-50-steps-needed-to-discharge-fit-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS \u2018bed-blocking\u2019 fuelled by 50 steps needed to discharge fit patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-40815\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/overcrowded-hospital-300x205.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/overcrowded-hospital-300x205.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/overcrowded-hospital.jpeg 357w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap-element-slot\">H<\/span>ospital staff have to complete 50 separate steps on average to discharge a patient, it has emerged, as the NHS grapples with a bed-blocking crisis.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/medical\/nhs-bed-blocking-fuelled-by-50-steps-needed-to-discharge-fit-patients\/ar-AA16n1vM?ocid=msedgntp&amp;cvid=3ac2d34e1986468895240052b573521b\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Hospital staff have to complete 50 separate steps on average to discharge a patient, it has emerged, as the NHS grapples with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-40994","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/hospital-ward.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40995,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40994\/revisions\/40995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}