STILL at breaking point: the UK’s National Health Service.
The argument about Covid-19 is still raging. Who are you going to believe – the politicians or the medical experts?
Here’s a medical expert – Dr Tim Cooksley, president of the Society for Acute Medicine.
He’s saying that the surge of Covid infections caused by the BA.2 variant of Omicron has caused a wave of illness among hospital staff, creating knock-on effects of overcrowding and low morale.
He said:
“The NHS and social care continue to be under immense strain and the system is becoming increasingly compromised.
“The reality is that we are seeing overcrowding in acute care settings with patient flow throughout the system impaired and patients stuck for long periods in emergency departments and acute medical units (AMUs) which results in worse patient outcomes.
“Due to this, paramedics are then stuck unable to transfer their patients into hospitals and get back on the road, resulting in 999 patients being left at home for longer periods without clinical assessment and treatment which potentially has a significant impact on their outcomes.
“These were problems that existed before Covid, however they are now exacerbated by high staff absence levels, fatigue and low staff morale, worsened by often not being able to deliver the standard of care they wish.”
More than 71,000 staff in acute trusts in England were off work last week because of sickness – two in five as a result of Covid, while more than a quarter of ambulance handovers were delayed by more than 30 minutes, Dr Cooksley said.
He described the Government’s goal of tackling the backlog in elective, non-urgent care as a “distant prospect”.
Covid-19 infections in most of the UK remain near or at record levels.
And Boris Johnson has spent years saying tens of thousands of nurses and doctors are entering the health service.
Where are they?
Or was this just like his more recent promise to “take control” of energy prices? That it’ll happen sometime, or maybe never?
Source: NHS patient care increasingly compromised, senior medic warns – upday News UK
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