85% of ambulance staff believe the delays are affecting patient health, and 35% believe people have died because of them. Liz Truss says she’s “appalled”, but that economic growth will fix everything, despite the problems happening NOW. People are dying NOW, but tax cuts for her wealthy friends and donors are more important than people’s lives.
This is 12 years of the Tories for you, they have no conscious and this for them is porn.
I really don’t understand why we keep the NHS limping along, the public voted unanimously to privatize it back in 2019.
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Give. The. People. What. They. Want.
Blame the government not the nhs
Exclusive: ITV films patients stuck on hospital trolleys for days as NHS struggles to cope *due to constant Tory underfunding and managed decline*.
Must have cut that bit off.
Fund the NHS by all means. But it’ll be meaningless unless we fund social care to allow proper patient flow and to keep people from going to hospital in the first place.
I work in elderly rehab. We can’t discharge people because there aren’t enough social care hours. Which means we can’t admit new patients. Which means patients stay on hospital wards. Which means A and E remains full. Which means ambulances can’t admit patients. Which increases wait times for ambulances.
Why else are ambulances struggling? Because elderly can’t cope at home why? Because of lack of community care.
Raise social community care budget and relieve the pressure on the NHS.
I took my wife to A&E on Monday. The old man sitting next to us had been there with his son for 24 hours, with suspected heart problems, waiting for a test. No trolley, just sat in a chair. Another guy had been sitting for 12 hours.
The woman opposite us started to go into a fit. The nurse talking to her shouted for a doctor – several stopped to look, then carried on with whatever they were doing.
The one innovation I saw was a security guard on the door saying “patients only”. You gonna carry my wife inside, buddy? Thought not.
In the end, it was quicker to get a phone appointment with our GP the next morning than wait for a doctor.
I’ve worked in hospital IT, so I’ve done nights in A&E. The last time was 6 years ago in a North London hospital – even then, A&E was a sea of trolleys by 10pm. You had to choose a spot and you’d be stuck there until maybe 2am. That was a marked deterioration from the same hospital 2 years previously.
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[Also a Twitter thread by the journalist here](https://twitter.com/PaulBrandITV/status/1552325719895719936?t=1H5REHJAP85nSBMILHl1Nw&s=19).
85% of ambulance staff believe the delays are affecting patient health, and 35% believe people have died because of them. Liz Truss says she’s “appalled”, but that economic growth will fix everything, despite the problems happening NOW. People are dying NOW, but tax cuts for her wealthy friends and donors are more important than people’s lives.
This is 12 years of the Tories for you, they have no conscious and this for them is porn.
I really don’t understand why we keep the NHS limping along, the public voted unanimously to privatize it back in 2019.
​
Give. The. People. What. They. Want.
Blame the government not the nhs
Exclusive: ITV films patients stuck on hospital trolleys for days as NHS struggles to cope *due to constant Tory underfunding and managed decline*.
Must have cut that bit off.
Fund the NHS by all means. But it’ll be meaningless unless we fund social care to allow proper patient flow and to keep people from going to hospital in the first place.
I work in elderly rehab. We can’t discharge people because there aren’t enough social care hours. Which means we can’t admit new patients. Which means patients stay on hospital wards. Which means A and E remains full. Which means ambulances can’t admit patients. Which increases wait times for ambulances.
Why else are ambulances struggling? Because elderly can’t cope at home why? Because of lack of community care.
Raise social community care budget and relieve the pressure on the NHS.
I took my wife to A&E on Monday. The old man sitting next to us had been there with his son for 24 hours, with suspected heart problems, waiting for a test. No trolley, just sat in a chair. Another guy had been sitting for 12 hours.
The woman opposite us started to go into a fit. The nurse talking to her shouted for a doctor – several stopped to look, then carried on with whatever they were doing.
The one innovation I saw was a security guard on the door saying “patients only”. You gonna carry my wife inside, buddy? Thought not.
In the end, it was quicker to get a phone appointment with our GP the next morning than wait for a doctor.
I’ve worked in hospital IT, so I’ve done nights in A&E. The last time was 6 years ago in a North London hospital – even then, A&E was a sea of trolleys by 10pm. You had to choose a spot and you’d be stuck there until maybe 2am. That was a marked deterioration from the same hospital 2 years previously.