Shaun Lintern🚨 Exclusive: One dogged coroner, four needless deaths and a stark conclusion: Britain's health and care system is broken: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/one-dogged-coroner-four-needless-deaths-and-a-stark-conclusion-the-nhs-is-broken-6zgz6tflk
Health secretary @[email protected] has been told he must act to prevent more deaths by coroner Andrew Cox, who investigated 4 deaths and quizzed officials to understand what was really driving appalling ambulance waits: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/one-dogged-coroner-four-needless-deaths-and-a-stark-conclusion-the-nhs-is-broken-6zgz6tflk
Among the deaths was 90-year-old Winnie Barnes-Weeks who had to lie on the floor for 19 hours with a broken hip waiting for an NHS ambulance that never came. A local GP had to organise a private ambulance to get her to hospital: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/one-dogged-coroner-four-needless-deaths-and-a-stark-conclusion-the-nhs-is-broken-6zgz6tflk
87-year-old RAF veteran David Morganti fell in his bathroom at home in April this year. By the time paramedics arrived 9 hours later he had lost consciousness but experts told the coroner he might have survived if got to hospital sooner: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/one-dogged-coroner-four-needless-deaths-and-a-stark-conclusion-the-nhs-is-broken-6zgz6tflk
Bob Conybeare was ready to leave hospital after a fall but was stuck for 4 weeks as no care home bed was free. He became confused and fell, dying from his injuries. The coroner learned 5 wards were full of patients ready to be discharged at @[email protected] https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/one-dogged-coroner-four-needless-deaths-and-a-stark-conclusion-the-nhs-is-broken-6zgz6tflk
Tony Reedman, 54, was on holiday in Cornwall when he suffered a stroke. The 2.5 hour delay in an ambulance reaching him meant treatment was too late to save him https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/one-dogged-coroner-four-needless-deaths-and-a-stark-conclusion-the-nhs-is-broken-6zgz6tflk
Why do these awful stories keep happening? The Sunday Times has learned 366 care homes have closed in the year to August with the loss of more than 1,600 beds. The @[email protected] says homes are running with empty beds because they don't have enough staff.
Kate@shaunlintern I am disappointed that these awful stories rarely address the fact that Covid has not gone away.
Covid infection and long Covid are causing high levels of staff absence.
Covid causes vascular, neurological and cognitive problems, this is an added burden to the NHS
I would not return to work in social care while there are no Covid protections.
We must campaign to bring in layered Covid safety precautions.
#FFP3
#CovidIsAirborne
#Hepa
#CovidIsNotOver
Joop #LoCovid #NoPlanetB@Kate @shaunlintern This 👆
You indicate yet another reason for the ever increasing staff shortages: besides the covid diseased, disabled and dead, and the ones with a burn out or simply fed up with the huge work pressure, there are also people that are truly conscious of the great risks of getting covid when precautions are utterly lacking.
I sympathise with you.
Only idiots in govt & management are blind to the LT consequences of letting #covid19 rip. #WearAMask #CleanIndoorAir