{"id":226840,"date":"2026-01-08T07:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T07:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/226840\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T07:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T07:21:07","slug":"delayed-discharges-costing-nhs-scotland-440m-a-year-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/226840\/","title":{"rendered":"Delayed discharges costing NHS Scotland \u00a3440m a year, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Health Secretary Neil Gray said more than \u00a3220m had been invested to improve patient flow, enhance capacity and remove blockages keeping patients in hospital longer than necessary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;More must be done to ensure people receive the care they need in the right place, at the right time,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said a body involving both the Scottish government and local government would consider the report&#8217;s recommendations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Fiona Hunter, president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine for Scotland, said delayed discharge resulted in &#8220;an almost inconceivable amount of wasted resources&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scottish Labour&#8217;s health spokesperson Jackie Baillie said the SNP had promised to end delayed discharge, but that things were worse than ever before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This issue is causing misery for patients, piling pressure onto hospitals, and costing our NHS billions,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scottish Conservative health spokesman Dr Sandesh Gulhane said: &#8220;This report lays bare the ongoing damage caused by the SNP&#8217;s broken promise to eradicate delayed discharge over a decade ago.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton said it was &#8220;utterly astonishing&#8221; that the NHS was losing \u00a31.2m a day to delayed discharge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Health Secretary Neil Gray said more than \u00a3220m had been invested to improve patient flow, enhance capacity and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-226840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}