Patient spent nine years in hospital waiting for nursing home place

146PM GMT fifteen Mar 2010

The unnamed man with formidable caring needs was certified to Fairfield Hospital in Bury, in Jul 1999 after carrying a cadence and indispensable to be changed to a caring home.

He was in the future changed to a home in 2008, but died weeks later. Staff from the sanatorium and internal management had reportedly attempted to assistance his family find him pick accommodation.

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The box emerged after Greater Manchester sanatorium trusts pronounced some-more than 110,000 bed days were lost in between Apr 2007 and Mar 2009 due to delays, with at slightest 3 alternative people from the segment spending some-more than a year in sanatorium unnecessarily.

A orator for Fairfield Hospital pronounced they have right away brought in a new liberate procession that equates to no studious should wait for some-more than 3 weeks prior to being discharged.

"We are committed to shortening the series of patients who are behind in hospital, even though they are medically fit to be discharged," he said.

"We work with internal first caring trusts and amicable caring services to forestall patients being behind inside of the liberate formulation process.

"We have not long ago published a new singular liberate routine that has been constructed in partnership with the internal authorities and first caring trusts.

"The routine is a some-more streamlined routine for discharging patients from all the hospitals, and an simpler routine for families, carers and the staff involved."