Exclusive: Emergency patients staying an extra day in ‘congested’ hospitals

Unhappy patient in bed

Patients are spending an extra day in hospital on average when admitted as an emergency compared to before covid, consuming millions of additional ‘bed days’, HSJ analysis has found.

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