article_snippet: Bed-blocking  has reached record levels as thousands of healthy people fill hospital wards needed for sick patients, official figures reveal.
article_snippet: Bed-blocking has reached record levels as thousands of healthy people fill hospital wards needed for sick patients .
article_snippet: Successive governments have failed to deal with the problem of bed-blocking.
article_snippet: But with numbers of bed days lost to the issue having nearly doubled from 55,000 a month in August 2010 to more than 103,000 in January 2015, critics have accused the Coalition of losing grip of the issue.
highlights_snippet: This is 19% increase on last year meaning bed-blocking has hit record high .
  