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Patients at risk as NHS and care ‘gridlocked’


“People are stuck – stuck in hospital because there isn’t the social-care support in place for them to leave, stuck in emergency departments waiting for a hospital bed to get the treatment they need and stuck waiting for ambulances that don’t arrive because those same ambulances are stuck outside hospitals waiting to transfer patients,” chief executive Ian Trenholm said.



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