SLAP bang in the city centre, the “stylish” Leonardo Hotel bills itself as “the perfect home from home”. But for many of its current residents, it is a lot more than that — it is their hospital war…
, wrote of his time at the Leonardo last month: “We stayed for two nights out of the three we booked for.“Meals were going up to the floors from the ‘closed’ restaurant and medical staff were seen going up and down the lifts.“Every time we asked a member of staff what was going on we got a different answer, including, ‘It’s a secret!’Patients have been put up in 40 rooms on the fourth and fifth floors of the hotel since October.
There are now 165,000 vacancies in adult social care in Britain — that’s one in 11 posts remaining unfilled. The Lib Dem survey revealed that ambulance services in West Devon, Mid Devon and the county’s South Hams area have the worst response times in England — twice the recommended seven minutes for the most serious Category One emergencies, which is when there is an imminent threat to life, such as a suspected cardiac arrest.
“Local authorities who run social care are having to put people somewhere, somehow, like putting patients from hospitals into hotels.In last month’s Autumn Statement ChancellorAnd a pot of money has been set aside to get patients discharged from hospitals this winter, which is likely to lead to many more being put into so-called “care hotels” like the Leonardo around the country.A spokesman said: “Care hotels do not contain hospital patients.
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