article_snippet: In January alone, the latest month for which figures are available, discharges from hospital were delayed for a total 103,776 days, according to NHS England records.
article_snippet: And with each delayed discharge lasting an average 28 days in January, the costs quickly mount up.
article_snippet: At Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge 18 per cent of acute inpatient beds were occupied last November by people whose discharge had been delayed .
article_snippet: Cambridge 18 were occupied last November by people whose discharge had been delayed.
article_snippet: NHS England statistics show that from February 2014 to January 2015 1,042,434 bed days were lost due to patients being unable to be discharged.
article_snippet: For the same period last year 873,415 days were lost.