In future, he suggests a transfer of care away from hospitals towards the high street.
The Royal Bournemouth hospital said it had 35 patients who were medically fit to go home but were still occupying beds because of problems with transfer of care.
It was the wholly unsurprising outcome of the wholesale transfer of care homes out of local authority care and into the private sector.
So for three days Brown was, in NHS parlance, a "delayed transfer of care" or, in colloquial terms, a bed-blocker.
Brown's situation – awaiting a care package in his own home – is fairly typical of the reason for a delayed transfer of care.
And third, the number of hospital patients who had suffered a "delayed transfer of care" had risen in both 2013-14 and 2014-15.
To the best of our knowledge a transfer of care to a number of new operators has not happened on this scale in the UK before.
Transition to age-appropriate care and transfer of care is a process that best occurs over time.
"You'd still have patients with delays in transfer of care as the finance would still be in two different departments.
"Despite this, as a result of record levels of investment in our NHS, delayed transfer of care performance at Betsi Cadwaladr is much improved.
Legal releases are signed, transfer of care occurs from birth mother to adoptive parents, and babies in withdrawal survive and go on to live decent lives.
