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'I'm desperate to keep my elderly parents out of hospital': Britain's top A&E doctor says crowding and bed blocking are killing hundreds of patients every week
Britain's top A&E doctor says he is desperate to keep his elderly parents from going in to hospital this winter – because he fears they won't come out again.
In a frank first interview, Dr Adrian Boyle, the new president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said hospital crowding and bed blocking were killing hundreds every week.
Comparing hospitals to 'lobster traps', Dr Boyle said the crisis in social care had left 13,000 patients stranded on wards, despite them being deemed medically fit to leave.
The log-jam was fuelling long waits for ambulances, rising 12-hour waits in A&E and other delays to emergency care, which are estimated to be causing more than 500 deaths a week.
His comments came on the back of another disastrous set of NHS performance statistics, which saw fewer than seven in ten A&E patients being seen within the four-hour target for the first time. In October, a record 594,389 patients waited beyond the four-hour target to be seen in A&E, while 44,000 endured waits of at least 12 hours to be moved to a ward after a decision had been made to admit. This was a rise from 7,048 in October last year.
Some 13,613 beds a day were taken by patients ready to be discharged but with no care programme in place.
The 132,000 job vacancies in the NHS and 165,000 across adult social care means hospitals are already short-staffed and community care is woefully lacking.
Meanwhile, official figures show the number of excess deaths are now at higher levels than during the pandemic. Office for National Statistics data shows there were, on average, 1,564 additional deaths a week last month, compared with a weekly average of 315 in 2020 and 1,322 in 2021.
50%
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...eds-patients-week-says-countrys-E-doctor.html
See how it works? Mass clotshots (= damage) result in a huge rise in people in dire need of treatment and, at the same, funding was either not increased or (maybe?) even decreased. It was apparent to me, at the beginning of the COVID scam, that the US health care is scheduled for demolition and this shit in the UK is what that looks like.
Britain's top A&E doctor says he is desperate to keep his elderly parents from going in to hospital this winter – because he fears they won't come out again.
In a frank first interview, Dr Adrian Boyle, the new president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said hospital crowding and bed blocking were killing hundreds every week.
Comparing hospitals to 'lobster traps', Dr Boyle said the crisis in social care had left 13,000 patients stranded on wards, despite them being deemed medically fit to leave.
The log-jam was fuelling long waits for ambulances, rising 12-hour waits in A&E and other delays to emergency care, which are estimated to be causing more than 500 deaths a week.
His comments came on the back of another disastrous set of NHS performance statistics, which saw fewer than seven in ten A&E patients being seen within the four-hour target for the first time. In October, a record 594,389 patients waited beyond the four-hour target to be seen in A&E, while 44,000 endured waits of at least 12 hours to be moved to a ward after a decision had been made to admit. This was a rise from 7,048 in October last year.
Some 13,613 beds a day were taken by patients ready to be discharged but with no care programme in place.
The 132,000 job vacancies in the NHS and 165,000 across adult social care means hospitals are already short-staffed and community care is woefully lacking.
Meanwhile, official figures show the number of excess deaths are now at higher levels than during the pandemic. Office for National Statistics data shows there were, on average, 1,564 additional deaths a week last month, compared with a weekly average of 315 in 2020 and 1,322 in 2021.
50%
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...eds-patients-week-says-countrys-E-doctor.html
See how it works? Mass clotshots (= damage) result in a huge rise in people in dire need of treatment and, at the same, funding was either not increased or (maybe?) even decreased. It was apparent to me, at the beginning of the COVID scam, that the US health care is scheduled for demolition and this shit in the UK is what that looks like.
