NHS trusts in south-west using hotels to free up beds to help them cope with winter crisis

Hospitals in several parts of England are discharging patients into “care hotels” in an effort to free up desperately needed beds to help them cope with the NHS winter crisis.

NHS trusts providing acute care in Devon, Cornwall and Bristol and surrounding areas have begun moving patients who are medically fit to be discharged into hotels.

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