bed-blocking

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bed-blocking

(Medicine) Brit the use of hospital beds by elderly patients cannot leave hospital because they have no place in a residential care home

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No references found			IT IS shocking that some NHS patients are spending up to seven months in hospital unnecessarily, as bed-blocking cases in the region continue to spiral. LIVERPOOL DAILY POST: Make hospitals system simpler by Daily Post (Liverpool, England) Latest figures show the level of bed-blocking is a third of what it was when the action plan was launched in March 2002. FEWER SPACES ON WARDS by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) It's not the bed-blocking that is the major drain on NHS resources. HEADS BLOCK BEDS by Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)			bed clothes bed clothing bed cover bed covering bed down bed ground bed in bed jacket bed linen bed molding bed moulding bed of flowers Bed of justice bed of roses bed pillow bed push bed rest Bed rock Bed screw bed settee bed sheet Bed steps bed tea bed wetter bed-and-breakfast bed-blocking bed-ground bed-hop Bed-molding bed-sit bed-sitter bed-wetting Beda Bedabble Bedaff Bedagat Bedaggle bedamn Bedash bedaub bedaubed bedaze bedazzle bedazzled bedbath bedbug Bedchair bedchamber bedclothes Bedcord bedcover			Bed sore Bed sore Bed sores Bed sores Bed sores Bed steps bed surface bed tea Bed Tents Bed Tents Bed Tents Bed warmer bed wetter bed wetter bed wetter Bed wetting Bed wetting Bed, Bath and Beyond bed-and-breakfast bed-and-breakfast bed-and-breakfast bed-and-breakfasted bed-and-breakfasted bed-and-breakfasted bed-and-breakfasting bed-and-breakfasting bed-and-breakfasting bed-and-breakfasts bed-and-breakfasts bed-and-breakfasts bed-blocking bed-ground bed-hop bed-hopped bed-hopper bed-hoppers bed-hopping bed-hops Bed-In Bed-molding Bed-Side Drainage bed-sit bed-sitter Bed-sitting room bed-sitting rooms Bed-stuy bed-type filter bed-wetter bed-wetter bed-wetter bed-wetters bed-wetters bed-wetters bed-wetting bed-wetting bed-wetting Beda Beda Beda Beda Venerabilis Beda Venerabilis

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