By Danielle Jefferies

Imagine you have received treatment in hospital and you have recovered enough to leave.

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You want nothing more than to get back home, sleep in your own bed, and return to life with your friends and family. But you can’t leave. Perhaps you’re waiting for a wheelchair ramp to be installed at home, or a shower rail to reduce your risk of slipping and falling. So you remain in a hospital bed instead.

Now imagine in the corridor just outside your room, there is a patient who needs your bed. They’re much sicker, but because a bed isn’t available, they’re left receiving care in a place no patient should have to be treated.

This is the daily reality in hospitals up and down the country.

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