Unsafe Discharge…Lack of Beds

Panic To Find Beds for patients

Preventing unsafe discharge
Risk of unsafe discharge ‘increased by teams in panic to find beds’
15 JULY, 2016 BY JO STEPHENSON

Dedicated discharge teams who “sweep around the wards looking for beds” increase the risk of unsafe discharge, the head of the Royal College of Nursing has told a committee of MPs.

 

All photos of mattresses on floor inside the Linden Centre.