{"id":86740,"date":"2026-03-23T09:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T09:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=86740"},"modified":"2026-03-23T09:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T09:13:08","slug":"hospitals-unable-to-discharge-hundreds-of-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/23\/hospitals-unable-to-discharge-hundreds-of-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospitals unable to discharge hundreds of children"},"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 decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1Zbs6E.img?w=534&amp;h=334&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Child in hospital\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of children are in hospital unnecessarily because they do not have the\u00a0<a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/global-health\/science-and-disease\/children-need-best-start-life-ensure-healthy-future-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">right support<\/a> to be discharged, a report has found. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/hospitals-unable-to-discharge-hundreds-of-children\/ar-AA1ZcvSx?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&amp;cvid=d72aa589a0eb4f96d49187869a97de83&amp;ei=17\">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>Hundreds of children are in hospital unnecessarily because they do not have the\u00a0right support to be discharged, a report has found. Read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86740","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\/2022\/04\/child-hospital-bed.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86740","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=86740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86741,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86740\/revisions\/86741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}