Rise in delayed hospital discharges

Feb 23 2010

The number of patients waiting in hospital beyond the end of treatment has increased in the past year, health officials said.

There were 606 delayed discharges in January, an increase from 492 in the same month last year, according to NHS statisticians at ISD Scotland.

Of those, 83 patients waited more than six weeks to leave, up from 79 in January 2009.