Exclusive: emergency measures will see hospitals in England discharge thousands of patients early
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Thousands of hospital patients are set to be discharged early to hotels or their own homes in order to free up beds for Covid-19 sufferers needing life-or-death care, the Guardian has learned.
Hospital chiefs in England intend to start discharging patients early on a scale never seen before, as an emergency measure to create “extra emergency contingency capacity” and stop parts of the NHS collapsing, senior sources said.
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