Some patients have waited more than a year to be discharged from hospital even though they were clinically ready to leave, new figures from the Scottish Liberal Democrats have revealed.

Freedom of information requests by the party uncovered the longest periods patients across the country had their discharge from hospital delayed for health and social care reasons between 2013 and 2016.

Reported by The Independent. You can read the full story here. 

Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.