New hospital risks becoming a care home as dementia patients wait months for places

DEMENTIA patients are deteriorating in hospital while waiting months for a nursing-home place, the Health’s managing director has revealed – warning that without more capacity, the Island’s new hospital risks becoming “the most expensive nursing home in the world”. Andy Weir told the Health and Social Security Scrutiny Panel yesterday that patients who needed nursing […] The post New hospital risks becoming a care home as dementia patients wait months for places appeared first on Jersey Evening Post .
2026-09-24 09:56:00