NHS looking to cut down on the length of hospital stays....BD
The longest in-patient stay for bowel surgery patients was 16 days longer than the shortest. Ministers have been urging NHS trusts to cut the length of time patients stay in after surgery. For bowel surgery, patients at West Dorset General Hospitals NHS Trust spent 1.6 days in hospital on average, compared with an average of 27.9 days at the Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust.
The study, by analysts Dr Foster, found differences of up to three weeks for hip replacement patients. The data was based on hospital stays for the year 2006/07 for bowel surgery, and 2005/06 for hip replacements.
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