Dr Amy Dissanyake: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- interim chief medical officer at NHS Sussex
- Quoted on
- Hospital discharge / bed-blocking
- Press citations held
- 1
- Most recently quoted
- 30 Sept 2026
“partners work "closely together to make sure that people who are well enough can return home, or move on to the care and support that is right for them". She added: "Although the number of people waiting to leave hospital is lower than at this point last year, it is still higher than we would want it to be, and our teams are doing everything they can to support safe and timely discharge during this busy winter period."”
Where Dr Amy Dissanyake has been quoted
- Bed blocking warning as 1,000 NHS hospital patients await dischargebbc.co.uk · 30 Sept 2026
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