NHS challenges hospitals in 70-day campaign to end 'pyjama paralysis'

The national #EndPJparalysis campaign aims to get patients out of bed, dressed in their own clothes and moving around in order to speed up their recovery. It also challenges all those who care for older people to get patients up and about for the next 70 days. To launch the campaign, U.K.’s Chief Nursing Officer cited studies showing that three out of five older patients in hospital don’t need to remain in bed all day, and that doubling the amount of walking while in hospital reduces patients’ length of stay.