Sentence examples for fit to be discharged from inspiring English sources
Bed blocking occurs when someone is medically fit to be discharged, but care has not yet been organised to help them outside hospital.
"They allowed him to sleep it off without any other treatment and he has been assessed as being medically fit to be discharged today.
Patients fit to be discharged from hospitals but having no place to go typically remain more than five years, Ms. Brown said.
There were 6,105 patients delayed in hospital when medically fit to be discharged in June, often because social care support was not available, compared with 6,045 in May.
After a few days of treatment he was declared fit to be discharged, but because of the time of year, it took three days for the hospital to find him a carer who could carry out the twice-daily visits that would allow him to return home safely.
Bed-blocking is when patients who are deemed "medically fit" to be discharged remain in a hospital bed.
The county's NHS hospital trust has an aim of 30 or fewer medically fit patients waiting to be discharged at the end of each month.
Patients included in the studies had to be assessed as fit by their health care providers to be discharged to home and to receive a follow-up appointment in the surgical outpatient clinic.
He told his physicians that he wanted to be discharged, but first he wanted to be fitted with an artificial leg.
