Social care shortages are leaving community health services overwhelmed, doctors have warned.

Increased demand and staff shortages mean at-home and care home services across Scotland are overstretched.

One GP working in a project to prevent vulnerable people from going to hospital unnecessarily said “things are becoming potentially unsafe”.

The Scottish government said it was making record levels of investment in social care.

A lack of available social care support in the community has been one of the drivers for an increase in so-called bed blocking, where patients are not able to be discharged from hospital despite being fit to leave.

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