I READ with some disbelief that one of the ideas that has been suggested to ease the bedblocking is to place patients in care homes.

I would urge that this suggestion is shelved as putting recently discharged patients in care homes will probably put them back in hospital.

My mother spent two years in a care home and in that time she fell several times and was attacked by a resident with a chair causing severe bruising to her face. None of these incidents were witnessed by the staff there and in all cases someone found her on the floor. This care home also broke every rule in the book and Oxfordshire County Council Social Healthcare department and the Care Quality Commission let them get away with it.

In fact all the staff employed at this care home all said the same thing: “There are not enough of us to give the residents the care they deserve.”

This due to the owners making maximum profit from minimum outlay.

If you put patients in care homes for recuperation, do it at your peril.

RAY HOLTON
Kingsclere Road, Bicester