Sentence examples for community bed from inspiring English sources

However, the health boards says: "Community bed health care will be provided through the roll out of the enhanced care service and through commissioning care home beds and the use of beds at Chirk hospital".

GP surgeries are less busy with 15-20 minute appointment slots and there are more community beds.

By comparison, New York State, with 18 million people, finances about 22,000 community beds for the mentally ill, and even that is insufficient.

Though community beds paid for by the State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities cost two to three times as much as beds for the mentally ill — because of higher supervision levels — New York has financed 7,000 more beds for that population.

But rapid response, community matrons and hot clinics have limited and short-term capacity and there is little in the way of urgent community beds for GPs to access otherwise.

The number of community beds are to be increased.

"This also means we have to offload some of these patients into community beds and those beds fill up.

"The GPs are very nervous about what may happen if community beds are restricted," said Dr Banfield, chair of the British Medical Association's Clwyd North division.

"We also don't know exactly how many patients are going to be coming through the Emergency Department and we can't tell until the last minute how many people will be discharged to other environments such as community beds".

"On the other hand we need a more multi-tool response, it's about freeing up community beds and housing so we're looking at the whole system," he said.

While there is increasing pressure on clinical teams, the NHS organisations, Primary Care Trusts and Social Services, the problem of delayed discharge is compounded by the lack of community beds due to recent closure of nursing homes and community hospitals in England.