I hate the term ‘bed blocking’ but it’s something that came up a lot when I was working in the Adult Community team. It seems to imply some kind of intent or purposeful wish to disrupt the smooth-running (or not) of hospitals. The term is used in relation to hospital beds and the need to ‘release’ [...]

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Posted 15 Jan 2009 4:51 AM by Fighting Monsters | Report Abuse

Filed under: social work, work, ASW, mental health, old age, elderly, health, mental health act, hospital, psychiatric hospital, Medicine, delayed discharge, community care (delayed discharge) act 2003, bed blocking, AMHP