‘Care hotel’ set up in Norwich to relieve ‘unprecedented’ pressure on hospitals

Norfolk and Waveney CCG pilot will care for up to 15 patients who are not well enough to be sent home

Norfolk has become the latest area in England to start transferring patients to a hotel in order to free up hospital beds.

The Norfolk and Waveney clinical commissioning group (CCG) said the hotel would act as a temporary care facility, after the service declared a critical incident this month due to “sustained and unprecedented pressure”.

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