Dr John Ribchester: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- clinical director at Whitstable Medical Practice
- Quoted on
- Hospital discharge / bed-blocking
- Press citations held
- 1
- Most recently quoted
- 30 Sept 2026
“If someone's requiring a degree of care, either a package of care for their home or indeed to go on to a care home, then an assessment has to be done by KCC social services. And with the best will in the world, there probably aren't enough people on the ground to do it in a timely fashion, so people are kept in a place of safety, i.e. a hospital... Those are the sort of things that the process requires for someone to be safely discharged, and unfortunately, it takes more time than any of us would like.”
Where Dr John Ribchester has been quoted
- Fit to leave – but trapped for months: The patients stranded in Kent’s hospitalskentonline.co.uk · 30 Sept 2026
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