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Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies
Sorry, Gill.
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Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies
Thanks, all. Is that the end of your questions, Mike?
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Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies
Carol has put her hand up.
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Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies
Carol again.
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Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies
Jason, you wanted to come in.
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Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies
It's a key question, isn't it, really? Who wants to go? Carol. You're always good to go first, Carol.
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Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies
Jason will want to come in on this, I imagine.
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Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies
Gill, do you want to come in?
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Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies
Who would like to address that? Carol.
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Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies
Dr Gibson.
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Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies
Gill. Gill Harris.
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Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies
Thanks, Gill. Thanks, Gareth. Mike Hedges.
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Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies
Gill Harris.
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Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies
Gill.
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Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies
Thanks. Gill.
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Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies
Okay—Dr Gibson.
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Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies
Thanks, all. I was only coming in to ask if you feel like you've got a new point to add. Otherwise, Gareth.
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Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies
Okay, who wants to address that? You don't all have to address it, just if one person addresses it and then other people can come in, but if you've got nothing to add—. Who wants to take that? Carol.
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Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies
Of course. So, okay, it's not a constraining feature in terms of fleet capacity, thank you. Okay, thank you. Gareth Davies.
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Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies
Okay, I'm just asking that in the context of the military no longer being available and to what extent do you need to invest in the fleet in that regard, but you're saying that's not the key issue here, the key issue is staffing.
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Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies
Thank you, Rhun. Can I just ask and pick up on—? Jason Killens, you outlined the additional staff coming in at April time, I think you said—March or April. In terms of ambulance vehicles themselves, at what capacity is a lack of vehicles an issue, or is the…
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Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies
Okay. Just hearing that last sentence, that's concerning in itself of course. Because the slides that have been presented to us by yourselves, Jason, paint a concerning picture of course, don't they? Okay, Rhun ap Iorwerth.
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Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies
Okay, thank you, Carol, I appreciate that. I suppose the question to Jason Killens is asking you about your predictions, but this is in—. I suppose from your perspective, a lot of these issues are out of your hands, but it's important that predictions are…
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Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies
Understood. Carol, you wanted to come in. So, again, I'm asking for your predictions for the future in terms of how confident you are that there are plans in place to address the delayed discharge from hospitals. Carol.
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Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals: evidence session with NHS bodies
Right, I'm thinking in particular that we are—. Is the current situation, in terms of the delayed discharge from hospitals, is the situation going to improve or is it going to get worse, or is it going to get better in the immediate short and long term? I…
