The NHS has said "it is simply not fair to be sending people home late at night" after revelations that 8000 patients a week, some elderly and vulnerable, are being sent home from hospital in the middle of the night to relieve pressure on beds.
The Times newspaper (£) gave Freedom of Information requests to all 170 NHS hospital trusts in England, asking for details of patients discharged between 11pm and 6am.
Around 100 trusts replied, saying that 239,233 patients had been sent home between those hours in 2011.
If all the remaining trusts were discharging at similar rates, this would add up to 400,000 of these discharges annually, that is nearly 8,000 a week. Rates varied between 8.7 per cent and less than 1 per cent across the trusts, the newspaper said.
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