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)
@chrischirp
Yes, that was my understanding too. You see the top toot, then click expand to see the rest if you want to. Which seems very similar to what happens when you click the CW button in a single toot.
Yes, that was my understanding too. You see the top toot, then click expand to see the rest if you want to. Which seems very similar to what happens when you click the CW button in a single toot.