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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/nhs-facing-bedblocking-crisis.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="The NHS faces a bed-blocking crisis which could see half of wards being flooded with elderly people, a report warned" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-nhs-facing-bedblocking-crisis.jpg" alt="The NHS faces a bed-blocking crisis which could see half of wards being flooded with elderly people, a report warned"/></a></p>
<p>The NHS faces a &#8220;bed-blocking&#8221; crisis which could see half of wards being flooded with elderly people who should be in care homes, a report has warned.</p>
<p>Figures estimate that if social care budgets are not ring-fenced, 81,000 care home beds will be lost over the next decade, leaving vulnerable people nowhere to go but hospital.</p>
<p>However, these projections were disputed by the Department of Health, which said an extra £2 billion had been allocated to councils to help them care for older people.</p>
<p>The study claimed pressure on the health service will be further compounded by the rapidly ageing population that will see an additional 18,000 older people needing care.</p>
<p>This will leave 100,000 of the 170,000 NHS beds taken up by the elderly residents who should be in residential care, restricting the places to those who need them, according to the report by Bupa, the private health insurance and care provider.</p>
<p>The study, entitled Who Cares? Funding Adult Social Care Over the Next Decade, urges the Government to ring-fence the £2 billion earmarked for adult social care so that councils do not use it to plug holes in other budgets. It also calls for councils to take into account care home inflation when setting budgets.</p>
<p>Mark Ellerby, managing director of Bupa Care Services, said on Thursday: &#8220;Today&#8217;s report reveals that the scale of the problem is much bigger than we thought. Unless councils protect funding for the elderly, thousands of vulnerable, frail older people will be unable to get the care home places they need and will have no option but to go into hospital.&#8221;</p>
<p>But a Department of Health spokeswoman said: &#8220;The report bases its figures partly on an assumption that the demand for care homes is increasing when in fact, the opposite is true.</p>
<p>&#8220;Most older people want to stay supported in their own homes for as long as possible and the extra £2 billion we have allocated to councils will help them care for older people in an environment that&#8217;s best for them &#8211; not necessarily in a care home.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are determined to protect the most vulnerable members of our society and the extra investment in social care will act as a bridge towards a sustainable long term solution to the reform and funding adult social care.&#8221;</p>
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