'No beds…not enough doctors': What's happening at UK hospitals?
1 year, 11 months ago

'No beds…not enough doctors': What's happening at UK hospitals?

Hindustan Times  

Five-year-old Yusuf Mahmud Nazir died from pneumonia after being sent home, despite a doctor describing his tonsillitis as the worst he had ever seen. "We go to work every day as nurses, and we do our best, and our best isn't enough right now, and that's because our workload keeps increasing and our resources aren't matching that," Orla Dooley, an accident an emergency nurse, told AFP. In Rotherham, northern England, young Yusuf's uncle, Zaheer Ahmed, said they were told there were "no beds and not enough doctors" when they begged for him to be admitted. "One hundred per cent I believe that if they got to my wife in six hours she would still be here," he told Sky News. Wilson said nurses told him he "wouldn't be alive" if he had waited for the ambulance.

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More than third of ambulance patients wait at least 30 minutes for A&E handover
2 weeks, 5 days ago

More than third of ambulance patients wait at least 30 minutes for A&E handover

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy More than a third of patients arriving by ambulance at …

Undercover footage shows ‘suffering indignity’ faced by patients in emergency care in England
6 months ago

Undercover footage shows ‘suffering indignity’ faced by patients in emergency care in England

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Earlier this month, a message sent to Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust staff …

Nearly 19,000 NHS patients waiting for more than three days in A&E
6 months ago

Nearly 19,000 NHS patients waiting for more than three days in A&E

The Telegraph  

Both Labour and the Conservatives have pledged to meet NHS targets in their manifestos. Commenting on the new figures, which were obtained as part of an investigation by Channel 4’s Dispatches programme which airs on Monday, Dr Adrian Boyle, President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said: “Spending days in an emergency department is … worse than spending days …

Thousands of UK hospital doctors walk out in the latest pay dispute, crippling health services
1 year, 5 months ago

Thousands of UK hospital doctors walk out in the latest pay dispute, crippling health services

Associated Press  

LONDON — Thousands of senior doctors in England began a 48-hour walkout Thursday to demand better pay and conditions, paralyzing hospitals and leaving only emergency care covered. The Conservative government has offered a 6% pay increase to the doctors, but the British Medical Association, the doctors’ union known as the BMA, called this “derisory.” It said doctors have seen real-term …

One in 10 NHS patients facing A&E waits of over 12 hours
1 year, 8 months ago

One in 10 NHS patients facing A&E waits of over 12 hours

The Telegraph  

One in 10 patients is facing “dangerous” waits of more than 12 hours in accident and emergency departments, according to new data revealing the true state of the NHS. In February, before junior doctors went on strike, 126,000 patients waited more than 12 hours from their arrival at A&E – 10.6 per cent of all casualty patients. Health officials said …

UK nurses, ambulance crews strike, straining health system
1 year, 10 months ago

UK nurses, ambulance crews strike, straining health system

Associated Press  

LONDON — Tens of thousands of nurses and ambulance staff walked off the job in the U.K. on Monday in what unions called the biggest strike in the history of the country’s public health system. The walkout is the latest in a wave of strikes that has disrupted Britons’ lives for months, as workers — especially in the public sector …

Revealed: Ambulance delays cause ‘severe harm’ to record 6,000 patients a month
1 year, 11 months ago

Revealed: Ambulance delays cause ‘severe harm’ to record 6,000 patients a month

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A record number of patients suffered “severe harm” as a result …

Strikes UK latest news: Steve Barclay says ‘patients will pay the price’ as nurses prepare to walk out
1 year, 11 months ago

Strikes UK latest news: Steve Barclay says ‘patients will pay the price’ as nurses prepare to walk out

The Independent  

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More misery for NHS patients as thousands of nurses stage two-day strike across England
1 year, 11 months ago

More misery for NHS patients as thousands of nurses stage two-day strike across England

Daily Mail  

An NHS nurse has tearfully described how she is barley living 'pay cheque to pay cheque' as she stood on the picket line during today's nursing strike. NHS physiotherapists hold their first strike action on January 26 and then again on February 9 Her comments, made on the first day of a second round of strikes organised by the Royal …

New NHS record as more than 54,000 patients wait 12 hours to get into A&E
1 year, 11 months ago

New NHS record as more than 54,000 patients wait 12 hours to get into A&E

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The NHS England figures show the average response time in December for ambulances dealing …

Revealed: Record 50,000 patients a week face 12-hour A&E waits
1 year, 11 months ago

Revealed: Record 50,000 patients a week face 12-hour A&E waits

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Leaked NHS data shows that last month as many as one in eight patients faced …

England's NHS works to move low-risk patients out of hospitals amid difficult winter
1 year, 11 months ago

England's NHS works to move low-risk patients out of hospitals amid difficult winter

ABC  

England's National Health Service aims to begin discharging thousands of patients into care homes and other settings in the next few weeks in an effort to free up desperately needed beds. Key points: The NHS will spend up to $350m so patients with low medical needs can be looked after outside hospitals It also employed the practice during the pandemic …

‘Let me die’: 92-yr-old UK woman pleads family after made to wait 33 hours for treatment
1 year, 11 months ago

‘Let me die’: 92-yr-old UK woman pleads family after made to wait 33 hours for treatment

Firstpost  

Liverpool: As National Health Service crisis gets worse with every passing day, heart-wrenching cases are coming to the fore where emergency patients are forced to lie unattended without treatment. In the latest, a 92-year-old ailing woman pleaded her family to let her die after she was made to wait for medical assistance for over 33 hours in a Liverpool hospital, …

Up to 500 people dying each week from emergency care delays, doctor says
1 year, 11 months ago

Up to 500 people dying each week from emergency care delays, doctor says

The Telegraph  

Dr Boyle told Times Radio: “If you look at the graphs they all are going the wrong way, and I think there needs to be a real reset. “We need to increase our capacity within our hospitals, we need to make sure that there are alternative ways so that people aren’t all just funnelled into the ambulance service and emergency …

NHS ‘close to overheating’ as unions announce new strikes for January
2 years ago

NHS ‘close to overheating’ as unions announce new strikes for January

The Independent  

The NHS is close “overheating completely” during one of its darkest ever winters, health leaders have warned, as union leaders stepped up their pay dispute with Rishi Sunak’s government and announced that more strikes are set to take place in January. NHS leaders said there were already signs of pent-up demand putting intense pressure on A&E departments following Wednesday’s strike …

Christmas could be one of the darkest to date for NHS, say health leaders
2 years ago

Christmas could be one of the darkest to date for NHS, say health leaders

The Independent  

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UK Ambulance Workers Ready to Join Widening Strikes Amid Protests by Nurse
2 years ago

UK Ambulance Workers Ready to Join Widening Strikes Amid Protests by Nurse

News 18  

UK ambulance workers readied to walk out on Wednesday, a day after nurses staged their second stoppage, in a widening dispute with the government which is refusing to cede to above-inflation demands on pay. On the picket line outside a central London hospital opposite parliament, Mamta Pun, 25, said Sunak’s stance on the pay dispute was “a slap in the …

UK govt refuses to give way on pay as nurses, medics strike
2 years ago

UK govt refuses to give way on pay as nurses, medics strike

Associated Press  

LONDON — The British government said Tuesday it will not offer more money to nurses and ambulance crews to end strikes that are piling pressure on an already overstretched health system. The government insists it can’t get directly involved in pay talks between unions and employers — but Sunak also told the Daily Mail that double-digit public sector raises would …

Plea for strikers to call off walkouts as NHS faces meltdown
2 years ago

Plea for strikers to call off walkouts as NHS faces meltdown

The Telegraph  

Dr Keith Girling, the medical director at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, apologised to patients as operations were cancelled and relatives were urged to collect those people who could be taken home. In Wales, the Betsi Cadwaladr health board declared an incident, warning of “extremely long waits” amid “unprecedented” demand, with “all but the most urgent procedures” suspended and warnings …

Elderly patients 'will be trapped in hospital at Christmas’ by NHS strikes
2 years ago

Elderly patients 'will be trapped in hospital at Christmas’ by NHS strikes

The Telegraph  

Unions are still negotiating local agreements with ambulance trusts about which calls will be responded to during Wednesday’s strike. Nadra Ahmed, of the National Care Association, said the strike action would “compound” the issue of delayed discharges. Caroline Abrahams, Age UK’s charity director, said there was a “crucial balance” between sending patients home ahead of the strike action and rushing …

Fears patients with medical emergencies will not seek help during NHS strikes
2 years ago

Fears patients with medical emergencies will not seek help during NHS strikes

The Telegraph  

Patients in a medical emergency may not seek care during the NHS strikes this week, doctors fear. Unions have pledged to provide “life and limb” cover to ensure the most serious emergencies are tended to but there have been warnings of long waits for less urgent calls and people are being encouraged to find alternative ways to the hospital wherever …

Ambulance handover delays are the worst on record
2 years, 1 month ago

Ambulance handover delays are the worst on record

The Telegraph  

Ambulance handover delays have reached the worst level on record, with more than a quarter of patients left stranded outside hospitals, data show. The new figures from NHS England provide the first weekly snapshot of how hospitals are performing this winter, amid record A&E pressures, waiting lists and discharge delays. Service is being ‘severely compromised’ Martin Flaherty, managing director of …

After SIX hours stuck in a queue of 33 ambulances, retired GP vows to stop people dying outside A&E
2 years, 5 months ago

After SIX hours stuck in a queue of 33 ambulances, retired GP vows to stop people dying outside A&E

Daily Mail  

Under no circumstances would retired GP Dr Alison Durkin advise a heart patient with severe chest pains to embark on a five-hour, 300-mile road trip to A&E. The former doctor upped her heart medication, rested and prayed the pain would settle, but felt so wretched she turned to her husband of 35 years, retired journalist Ross, 63, and said: ‘I …

NHS ambulance crisis saw one patient 'wait 24 HOURS outside busy A&E'
2 years, 7 months ago

NHS ambulance crisis saw one patient 'wait 24 HOURS outside busy A&E'

Daily Mail  

An NHS patient had to wait 24 hours in the back of an ambulance outside A&E last month, it was revealed today. This is nine minutes and 41 seconds quicker than one month earlier The number of safety incidents logged by ambulance trusts in England has skyrocketed 77 per cent in the last year compared to before the pandemic, official …

NHS hospital staff absences through Covid quadruple in London, data shows
2 years, 11 months ago

NHS hospital staff absences through Covid quadruple in London, data shows

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy NHS hospital staff absences due to Covid have nearly quadrupled …

One in eight hospital beds is being blocked by someone who is fit to leave
3 years ago

One in eight hospital beds is being blocked by someone who is fit to leave

The Telegraph  

More than 8,000 patients waited longer than an hour to be handed over, the figures also show, with 8,401 delays of more than 60 minutes across all acute trusts in the seven days to December 12. “We are looking at probably about 10 per cent of staff, that’s doctors and nurses, who are having to be off and they are …

Tenfold increase in patients waiting over eight hours to be transferred from ambulance to A&E
3 years ago

Tenfold increase in patients waiting over eight hours to be transferred from ambulance to A&E

The Telegraph  

Crisis was ‘avoidable’ Dr Ian Higginson, the Vice President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said bed capacity in hospitals is limited due to wards being split between Covid and non-Covid patients. Separate figures released this week showed around 10,500 hospital beds are being blocked by patients every day who are fit enough to be discharged, representing around one …

One in 10 ambulance patients ‘waiting more than an hour’ for A&E handover
3 years ago

One in 10 ambulance patients ‘waiting more than an hour’ for A&E handover

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy One in 10 patients arriving by ambulance at hospitals in …

Patients suffer 35,000 hours in ambulances as waiting times soar
3 years, 1 month ago

Patients suffer 35,000 hours in ambulances as waiting times soar

The Telegraph  

The amount of time patients spend stuck in ambulances outside hospitals has risen seven-fold over the summer, new figures have revealed. Two deaths linked to handover delays Earlier this week, hospitals across England were ordered to “eliminate” ambulance queues outside hospitals after two deaths were linked to handover delays. It follows reports of the deaths of two patients subjected to …

Eliminate ambulance queues, hospitals told after deaths linked to handover delays
3 years, 1 month ago

Eliminate ambulance queues, hospitals told after deaths linked to handover delays

The Telegraph  

Hospitals in England have been ordered to “eliminate” ambulance queues after two deaths were linked to handover delays. It came after NHS chiefs warned of “catastrophic harm” being caused to patients in a growing crisis, with some dying before they could be reached because so many ambulances were stuck outside hospitals. Prof Stephen Powis, the national medical director of NHS …

NHS faces Covid 'staffing crisis' with 'one in TEN workers' off sick
3 years, 11 months ago

NHS faces Covid 'staffing crisis' with 'one in TEN workers' off sick

Daily Mail  

The NHS is faced with a 'staffing crisis' as 'one in ten workers' are off sick or isolating while soaring coronavirus cases hit hospitals, a doctor has claimed. The NHS is faced with a 'staffing crisis' as 'one in ten workers' are off sick or isolating while soaring coronavirus cases hit hospitals 'The NHS has been running on just about …

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