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  This is a scandal and the Times did a good job in highlighting it. It is also old news and some of us have been flagging it for years. It also chimes with the idea of "bed blockers" which is real and holds up care for many people: this is when people cannot be discharged from hospital because there is insufficient support for them at home or no appropriate residential or nursing placement. This puts the "bed blockers" at risk as well as people needing the beds. It also humiliates the people left in hospital as I have actually heard professionals standing at someones bedside refer to them, in their hearing, as a bed blocker. Imagine how that feels if you are alreaty frail and disempowered, possibly already feeling a bit of a burden. Outrageous.
  
  Only when health and social services work in partnership can this be rectified. And that will never happen without serious reform.

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