FM orders hospitals to review patient discharge plans

Emergency Departments are said to be stabilising, but hospital occupancy is at near capacity

Health boards across Scotland have been ordered to review patient discharge plans by the end of this month to see if anyone can be sent home sooner.

The First Minister announced the move as she admitted the current pressures on the NHS “are still having an adverse impact on too many” people.

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