Inside UK hospital overstretched and under pressure

Patients in England are seeing the worst ambulance response times and longest A&E waits on record - while almost 55,000 people waited more than 12 hours in A&E last month, a sharp increase on the month before.

The number of beds taken up by people medically fit to be discharged also hit a record high.

It has left health service staff wondering how bad things have to get before the government takes urgent action.
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[taintedsoul]

Steve Barclay was on at 8 am on Radio 4 the other day talking about how he was due to meet with the doctors union. At 9 am, he had cancelled the meeting due to 'other commitments' i.e he wanted to carry on doing his media round talking about how nurses should be more productive. I think it shows how much disdain he has for the entire workforce, and why the strike is absolutely necessary to call the public's attention to this feckless nonsense ministers might routinely do, as this is a game to them, but has no place when you're talking about healthcare!

The other tory talking point was that excess deaths are due to covid treatment delays, and europe is affected. NHS England estimates 300-500 excess deaths specifically due to hospital pressures and A&E waiting times, this is before the strikes, comparing covid deaths from earlier in the year, and deaths from 2019. The strikes are a last ditch effort to change things. Junior and middle grade doctors are earning 30% less in real terms than they did in 2011, and the job is getting harder due to staff shortages, fewer training jobs despite the waiting list going up, leading to more people leaving. The fix for this is simple, and costs less than all the money they squandered on useless PPE, dodgy contracts for their mates, and stupid plans resulting in our current economic state.

[petermackenzie]

The NHS staff are striking because they do not have the resources to operate as we require them to, so when journalists ask 'surely you are making things worse by striking?' the answer is yes, they are making things worse, but only in the short term. If they were given the resources they needed to operate in the first place they wouldn't need to strike. Disgraceful victim blaming

[JohnStibal]

Don't grow old and don't get sick.

[SuperMcbonez]

This is where 12 years of tory rule has left us. Watch them point the finger at anyone but themselves. Even resorting to blaming nurses for this dire mess. This government are an absolute joke.

[louisegould]

It has been bad for years. I left to go and work in the Middle East 5 years ago because it was so many times I was told by managers (nhs), “if you can’t get your break in a 12 hour shift then it’s your time management, no because it’s too busy. “.

[jasewesley]

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[edytapotoczniak]

Too low pay for NHS staff does not attract healthcare staff. This is something the government should look at

[TheWiseJames]

After 12 years of under funding the NHS this is what happens. The NHS is more important than everything in the UK except maybe the armed forces even that is up for debate. More important than politics and any political party.

[RankinMsP]

I like how the govt talks about fighting for the common people whilst not acknowledging that the people going on strike are common people.
I will also be interested to see if MPs feel they are worth a pay rise this year because they are more 'productive'.

[lesleyrobertson]

I’m a nurse of 29 years and I have problems with kidney stones due to not being able to go to the toilet in 12.5hr shifts

[ZaraValentine-tt]

Yet a year later and as an experienced nurse of 4 years, I am unable to be accepted for a role in the NHS Trust because they have shut down funding for staffing so there are no jobs available, so much for the 50, 000 nurses being replaced with the funding going into training. One job for all those completing their hard work of training amongst experienced nurses?? Something not quite right here. Shutting down jobs despite the rise in Covid, Flu, RSV and walking peunomia 😢

[thisismetoday]

If I have one more "reporter" asking whether [insert any group] are not making the situation worse by going on strike, I am going to get very angry.

[canergs]

We support more strikes for better healthcare and working conditions

[SorminaESar]

All of UK's people, especially the peoples of the hospitals like patients, nurse, ambulance workers and cleaning servicers be patient, thoug and keep praying in any circumstances, God save and bless all of you, guys to be better in the next day.🙏

[yvonnefarrell]

At least the patients are not going bankrupt as they are across the pond for the same dreadful "care".

[John_]

If we had a government that worked for the benefit of the people, all this suffering could be avoided.

[Murphy]

I'm three years trained mental health nurse, so six years all in. You know what I have been doing this week, looking jobs in supermarkets in my own town. By the time I commute 80 miles I would not be far off every month, the pension etc does not matter tbh as I could be dead tomorrow, and I'm not sick often. I can then do agency work at £37 an hour to make up when I wish. Keep it up Tories, keep it up!

[arthurdanielles]

Note the 'average time to be seen'.. 108 mins = Nearly TWO HOURS .. This is NOT representative of the true waiting time across A and E departments nationwide. NOR this hospital, it applies to that moment in time.. another time and that time could be HOURS and HOURS ie 4 hours, 6 hours. DO remember as well that to 'be seen' does NOT mean by a Doctor etc NOR does it mean that the person waiting ie the 'patient' will not be left waiting for HOURS after this. Patients can end up waiting for HOURS and then if it is decided they need to be admitted to hospital?? Further HOURS stuck on a trolley in the corridor before being moved to a ward et FACT.

[AaronJCassidy]

I hope people are happy with their voting choices these last 12 years, because this is the result. Well done.

[msweguu]

The reality without camera you'll see hardly the participation of the Lead nurses or Matrons giving direct nursing care to the patients....