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Hospital bosses should raid their NHS budgets to pay for care home places so patients do not remain stuck on 'lobster trap' wards, Labour will demand today.
Wes Streeting will praise 'trailblazing' trust leaders who have chosen to fund social care to ease 'gridlock' in their hospitals.
The party's health spokesman will also tell executives gathered at the NHS Providers conference in Liverpool that more should do the same, while criticising the Government for failing to spend a penny of its promised £500million delayed discharge fund.
Wes Streeting will praise 'trailblazing' trust leaders who have chosen to fund social care to ease 'gridlock' in their hospitals
In yesterday's Mail the country's leading A&E doctor warned that hospitals are so full it is harming elderly patients.
Dr Adrian Boyle said he was desperate to keep his elderly parents out of hospital this winter because he fears they won't come out again.
He compared hospitals to
