More than 500 patients have been admitted to a former care home in Preston since it was converted into a new facility designed to look after people who would otherwise be stuck in hospital – even though they no longer needed to be there.
As first revealed by the Local Democracy Reporting Service , the trust that runs the Royal Preston and Chorley and South Ribble hospitals took over the Finney House site in Deepdale in November last year.
“[It] was brilliant and it really helped [with] the winter pressures. We had an average length of stay of just under four days, which [means] it is not getting clogged up. It is hoped that the arrangement will also help to make permanent improvements to the flow of patients through hospital – from their arrival at the ‘front door’, via Accident and Emergency, to the ‘back door’ and the point at which they are discharged from the wards if they have ended up being admitted.
However, papers from the trust’s board meeting last month also noted that patients waiting over 12 hours on trolleys in A&E increased slightly in February to 134, while the overall bed occupancy levels in the hospital remained “high” at 94.3 percent – an improvement on the 95.8 percent figure for January, but still some way short of the 85 percent level commonly regarded as the ideal maximum proportion of a hospital’s beds that should be filled at any one time.
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