The number of patients unable to be discharged from hospital although medically well could be significantly higher than NHS figures show, according to a study by an independent body.
The Nuffield Trust, a health policy think-tank, has estimated that far more hospital beds were taken up by patients classed as ‘delayed transfers of care’ (DToCs) than NHS England’s counting system picks up.
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