Alan John Wiki – Alan John Biography
Retired florist Alan John, 76, was admitted to South Pembrokeshire Hospital in December 2021 after a fall. In June 2022, he could be gone, but his wife Ruth said 100 other people also needed a carer and he died in October. The Welsh Government said it was working with health boards and councils to speed up discharges. Ruth, 67, said all her late husband wanted, after months of treatment, was to see their garden at the couple’s home in Pembrokeshire and “it was a great sadness that I would never see him again. When Alan died after suffering a blood clot, he still had no assigned caregivers. Retired florist Alan John, 76, was admitted to South Pembrokeshire Hospital in December 2021 after a fall. In June 2022, he could be gone, but his wife Ruth said 100 other people also needed a carer and he died in October. The Welsh Government said it was working with health boards and councils to speed up discharges. Ruth, 67, said all her late husband wanted, after months of treatment, was to see her garden at the couple’s Pembrokeshire home and “it was a great sadness that he would never see it again”.
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Alan John was 76 years old.
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When Alan died after suffering a blood clot, he still had no assigned caregivers. Pembrokeshire Council said it was “sincerely sorry” for delays in care procurement but was working with “increasingly pressured financial envelope” and had taken “significant steps” to address the shortage of healthcare workers. A snapshot figure taken one day at the end of April showed that around 1,750 people in hospitals in Wales were fit to return home but could not. A doctors’ union said the pressure on emergency departments due to discharge delays was “worse than ever”. Official figures suggest that the most common reason (39%) was “waiting for evaluation”. However, in July, BBC Wales Investigates revealed that patients were stuck in hospital for up to 11 months waiting for their carers so they could return home. The Welsh Government said it was “hopeful that things will gradually begin to improve”, but the latest data suggested that the number of people waiting for a care home placement (26%) or home care (12%) has not been reduced.
Just this week, Cardiff and Vale health board declared a “business continuity incident” due to a lack of beds caused by “prolonged discharges of patients”, while ambulances queued outside hospitals for up to 28 hours last month. Stephen Kelly, a respiratory consultant at the British Medical Association Cymru, said the figures would not be a surprise to his A&E colleagues. He added: “It’s good that [the Welsh Government] is hopeful, but realistically I think it’s more accurate to say that most of us are scared of what will happen over the winter months.” Despite huge efforts to get people out the “back door” more quickly, Dr Kelly said what was “very clear is that the situation is worse than ever”. The Welsh Government said it had a fund of £146m to help people return home and £25m to prevent admissions. He added: “We are working with health boards and local authorities to identify what more can be done to support the discharge process. “We know they are under significant pressure, but we encourage them to manage resources in those areas with the greatest health and social care delays.”
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