Andy Weir: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Sector leader
- Role
- Health's managing director
- Quoted on
- Hospital discharge / bed-blocking, Care home closures & provider failure
- Tracked press citations
- 2
- Most recently quoted
- 30 Sept 2026
- First quoted
- 29 Sept 2026
“the delays were having a "significant" impact on patient flow and emergency admissions”
What Andy Weir has said
“If you come into hospital with dementia and you need to go into a nursing home, you will probably wait about three months in hospital when you don't need to be there. The consequence of that is that people deteriorate in hospital.”
Health's managing director · Care home closures & provider failure · 29 Sept 2026 · New hospital risks becoming a care home as dementia patients wait months for places ↗
Where Andy Weir has been quoted
- Discharge-ready patients remain in hospital despite efforts to tackle bed-blockingjerseyeveningpost.com · 30 Sept 2026
- New hospital risks becoming a care home as dementia patients wait months for placesjerseyeveningpost.com · 29 Sept 2026
Related media coverage
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