article_snippet: A bed in a hospital costs the NHS a basic £275 per day with medicines and other care excluded, according to Department of Health figures.
article_snippet: Healthy patients are usually kept in hospital because Healthy patients have nowhere else to go.
article_snippet: At Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge 18 per cent of acute inpatient beds
article_snippet: Dr Susan Robinson, an A&E consultant at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge 18 per cent of acute inpatient beds, said in last November: 'If we' re crowded it's because Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge 18 per cent of acute inpatient beds's crowded, and Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge 18 per cent of acute inpatient beds's crowded because they can't get patients out. '
article_snippet: Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge 18 per cent of acute inpatient beds is almost bringing us to us knees.'
article_snippet: A spokesman said: 'In fact, proportionally fewer patients are being delayed in hospital as NHS helps record numbers of patients. '
article_snippet: We're also bringing health and social care services together for the first time next month to further reduce A&E admissions and get people out of hospital more quickly.'
highlights_snippet: A bed in a hospital costs the NHS a basic £275 per day plus medicines .
  