{"id":592134,"date":"2026-05-19T08:49:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T08:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/592134\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T08:49:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T08:49:21","slug":"medway-council-approves-40-7m-contract-to-prevent-bed-blocking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/592134\/","title":{"rendered":"Medway Council approves \u00a340.7m contract to prevent bed blocking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It added that the issue had placed &#8220;significant pressure&#8221; on Medway Maritime Hospital, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillor Teresa Murray, portfolio holder for public health, said that the contract, jointly funded by the authority and NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB), would &#8220;ease the strain&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This contract is crucial to our ongoing work in Medway on prevention \u2013 helping people maintain their health and independence for longer,&#8221; she added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This will improve their quality of life, which will in turn help to relieve the burden on the NHS.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Other services will include home visits from health professionals to help with everyday tasks and provide tailored exercises to rebuild strength and confidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It added that the issue had placed &#8220;significant pressure&#8221; on Medway Maritime Hospital, according to the Local Democracy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-592134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}