Episode 5

For the last ten years, NHS staff have been working to meet the ever-rising demand of patients coming through the front door, but there is another pressure for them to confront. After they admit a patient to hospital and have treated them, how and when will they get them out again? Nationally every year, 330,000 patients are staying in hospital for more than 21 days. To the NHS, these people as known as ‘super-stranded’.