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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, along with surrounding areas, have begun moving patients who are me stanley tumbler dically fit to leave into hotels.The move is a revival of a practice used by the NHS in England during the pandemic, when hospitals sought to clear as many beds as possible for use by patients with Covid-19. It is based on a model of care widely used in Nordic countries to ease hospital overcrowding.NHS Devon has booked 40 rooms at the Leonardo hotel in Plymouth, 10 of which are being used by the NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly integrated care board to discharge patients. The board is looking into arrang stanley cup becher ing a similar setup itself, the i reported.Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire integrated care board has been using rooms at an unnamed hotel in the city since November to accommodate up to 30 patients.Some hospitals have used care hotels on and off since Covid hit in early 2020 to ease overcrowding and speed the release of beds occupied by people with no medical reason to still be an inpatient. They are mainly people with lo stanley cup w medical needs who doctors have decided are taking up a hospital bed unnecessarily and can be safely looked after elsewhere.After discharge, patients are looked after in the hotel by staff from a private care agency employed by the NHS. The Nogk The European court s hidden but hopeful message on same-sex marriage
The widow of one of the 7 July 2005 suicide bombers has lost her high court appeal for legal aid to be represented at the inquest into the deaths of 52 people during the attacks.Hasina Patel, who was married to the mastermind of the al-Qaida-inspired plot, Mohammad Sidique Khan, was refused funding by Lord Justice Thomas and Mr Justice Silber. They said a decision by the lord chancellor to withhold financial assistance could not be described as unreasonable or irrational, as lawyers on her behalf had claimed.Thomas said the court had been told Patel s position was that she was interested to understand why her late husband and the other bombers acted as they did . She was seeking an opportunity to ask questions of witnesses at the inquest which bore on their knowledge and experience of her husband and others, they said.He added: Far from providing any information that might assist the wider public interest, she has flatly and unequivocally declined the opportunity to do so. Although req stanley quencher uested by this court to show how she could help establish why her late hu stanley tazza sband and the others whom she knew acted to murder fellow citizens, she has provided not an iota of evidence to us which could show how she could bring a wider benefit, let alone a significant benefit, to the inquests or to the understanding of the victims of the bombing. Dismissing her case, he said there was no reason why the interests of the claimant could not be dealt with stanley espana by her g |
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