bed-blocking
noun [ U ] UK (also bed blocking) uk/ˈbedˌblɒk.ɪŋ/ us/ˈbedˌblɑː.kɪŋ/
（因患者如出院即无处接受护理而造成的）床位封锁
the situation when someone, usually an older person, is using a bed in a hospital, although they no longer need to be there, because they do not have anywhere else to go where they can be cared for safely
Bed-blocking occurs because of the lack of support systems in the community. 出现床位封锁的原因是缺乏社区支持系统。
The government allocated an extra £60m to reduce bed blocking by providing additional social services. 政府通过增加拨付6千万英镑提供额外的社区服务来减少床位封锁。
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- The first reason he mentions for bed-blocking is that patients, or their relatives, do not accept the first offer of a residential place if it is too far away.
- The plan pledges to get rid of bed-blocking by improving intermediate care.
- The whole notion of bed blocking seems to imply that older people enter hospital and then wilfully continue to occupy a bed which, in the views of staff, they no longer require.