Hospitals unable to discharge healthy patients due to care shortage

Hospitals unable to discharge healthy patients due to care shortage





Grandmother-of-two Janice McDonald remembers little of the fall that caused her to be admitted to hospital.

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Janice, 74, was in the kitchen when it happened.

"I opened my eyes and it was horrendous, I couldn't move, nothing," she said.

Janice lives alone in a three-bedroom house in Cardiff.

She said the wrist alarm she was wearing had been a "godsend", as she could not otherwise have called for help.


'Desperate' to go home
Janice cannot remember going into hospital.

"I was in a total and utter fog, I thought I'd been beamed up and put in a soap opera.

"I thought, where the hell am I? What's happened? I was really bewildered until it was explained [to me] I was ill. It was awful, really frightening," she said.

Janice, who raised her two children on her own while working three jobs, has spent about six weeks in hospital.

She said the staff were wonderful but she was desperate to go back home.

She is medically fit to leave and is spending her time in hospital in a new, nurse-led ward designed to build confidence and improve mobility so she can continue to live independently at home.


So what can be done to ease the pressure?
The ward Janice McDonald is staying on is a pilot scheme designed to solve this problem - and it has been running for two months.

"It's proving successful. We're having three to five discharges per week. It's really positive," said Jane Andrew, the ward sister.

She said the ward helped reduce the number of ambulances queuing outside A&E, by moving patients who were almost ready to be discharged from more specialist, acute wards to nurse-led wards where patients needed fewer medical interventions.