🏥 More houses. More people. But where is the infrastructure?
The South East now has the highest number of delayed hospital bed days in England.
At the same time, East Kent is being expected to accommodate thousands more homes.
Those new residents will need GPs, ambulances, hospital beds, community healthcare and social care.
And when people are medically ready to leave hospital but the care they need isn’t available, beds stay occupied and the pressure backs up into A&E.
These people aren’t “bed blockers”. They’re patients waiting for the system to unblock.
We absolutely need homes, but building thousands of them without matching investment in health and social care isn’t sustainable.
I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying it.
More homes must mean more infrastructure.
