Hospitals in Isle Of Wight NHS Trust unable to discharge over three quarters of patients

In Isle Of Wight NHS Trust between July 1 2022 and June 30 2023 on an average night 79.8% patients who had been identified as ready to be discharged that day were still occupying a bed at midnight.

This is 22 percentage points higher than the average figure for trusts across England (57.8%).

On 6 days 100% of patients classed as “no longer meeting the criteria” to be in hospital were still occupying beds at midnight. This means that on 2% of days for which data was provided, not a single patient was discharged.

The day when the most patients were left in hospital was Friday November 25 2022 when 99 who could have been discharged were still in the hospital at the end of the day.

The proportion of patients ready to be discharged but still occupying beds was worst on Mondays, when 88.4% of patients identified as ready to be discharged that day were still occupying a bed at midnight.

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Isle Of Wight NHS Trust is ranked 2nd in the South East region for the proportion of undischarged patients.

Data source: NHS England: Discharge delays (Acute). National average does not include figures from Yeovil District Hospital Trust.