Acute beds in our hospitals are filled with patients fit for discharge but not well enough to be at home as they need convalescent time or a care package. Funding for cottage hospitals should help alleviate the Ambulance crisis, where they are queuing for whole shifts outside A & E.
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So that the NHS works. For the last 30 years successive governments have made cut backs in real terms including shutting all our cottage hospitals.