Prof Christina PagelA fediverse THREAD on latest NHS situation in England: Ambluance times, A&E, Waiting lists...
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Ambulance wait times across the board are the worst they've been for a very long time.
Graph shows category "C2" - not quite life or death, but potentially. Target is 18 minutes wait, but average is now over an hour. Almost 80 minutes in the Midlands and the SW. 2/
Once you get to A&E, waits to be seen are longer than ever. 31% of people now wait longer than 4 hours (target is 5%!).
Unsurprisingly about 5-6% of people leave before being seen - some of those really needed to be seen.
Over 8% of people wait longer than *12 hours* - up from basically 0% pre pandemic.
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One of the big issues causing these long waits is that hospitals are full and finding it difficult to discharge people ready to go - often frail older people who have nowhere safe to go with a broken social care system.
About 25% of beds in general wards are occupied by adults otherwise fit to be discharged.
Just since April this year, that's an extra 300,000 days in hospital for patients staying at least a week longer than doctors thought they needed to. 4/
artsyhonker@chrischirp I'm not going to boost these posts without CWs.
TheExecutiveEditor@artsyhonker @chrischirp
Trying to understand the CW metrics and conventions on Mastodon.
Would you expect a CW on each toot? I would have assumed that the fact that all detail was "hidden" in subsequent toots and the first toot was a summary would have provided the equivalent protection?
Trying to understand the CW metrics and conventions on Mastodon.
Would you expect a CW on each toot? I would have assumed that the fact that all detail was "hidden" in subsequent toots and the first toot was a summary would have provided the equivalent protection?
@TheExecutiveEditor
I didn't use a CW because i put no data in the top tweet (public) and then all the following content as an unlisted thread - so people ONLY see that content if they click on the thread to view it.
(At least that's what I understood it does, and what was recommended to me as best practice)
TriciaB@chrischirp @TheExecutiveEditor Yes, seems good to me and seems to follow my newbie understanding of OK, too.