Emeritus Prof Christopher MayDec 30

The use of 'escalation areas' in A&E dept.s has become normalised & while the president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine sees this as 'big trouble' until there's a major disaster linked to corridor care, our political class & the news media are focussed elsewhere

The problem as always is the movement of patients through hospital systems, which is slowed down by problems of discharge to social care... & that is not going to be fixed anytime soon.

#NHS #health
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/30/ae-nhs-in-trouble-normalised-corridor-care-says-leading-uk-medic

A&Es in ‘big trouble’ because of ‘normalised’ corridor care, says leading UK medic

Emergency medicine specialist says improved social care and efficiency would help crisis in NHS

The Guardian
Show threadKatja
@ChrisMayLA6 inability to fix social care breaking the nhs, next to reduced number of beds (even during the pandemic), reduced investment vs EU, the statement that blows my mind, less beds less costs, so you run 🏥 with less beds, then surprise 😱 of waiting times ⬆️ in an aging pop, beds cancelled in summer to save money, also strip staff of the little bit of recovery time that was there previously, those closed beds also never reopened in winter as now no staff, FFS
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Show threadHashbangperlDec 30
@Kaetchi @ChrisMayLA6 our local trust is spending several employee an annual salaries per month on consultants on how to save money, 5 digits a day, they plan to lay off 600 staff and close a department.
Show threadKatjaDec 30
@hashbangperl @ChrisMayLA6 sadly most hospitals are down to reduce staff, significantly, the worry is that less income generating specialities are hit more ??? Just speculating here and who has the overview of cuts overall nationally in the different trusts, so overall national care not harmed, perhaps somebody here knows?
Show threadHashbangperlDec 30
@Kaetchi @ChrisMayLA6 I'm in Cornwall, there is only one major hospital and one specialist department for anything until Plymouth or Bristol
Show threadHashbangperlDec 30
@Kaetchi @ChrisMayLA6 national provision is a non-starter if it requires a day to drive there, and hotel stays for an hour appointment
Show threadKatjaDec 30
@hashbangperl @ChrisMayLA6 what I intended to say is good overal coverage nationally and not hit and miss, to avoid this postcode lottery, but probably was not clear enough
Show threadclarkiestarDec 30
@Kaetchi @ChrisMayLA6 this jogged my memory to how the Tories created new temporary ‘hospitals’ during Covid but had no beds or staff to run them. A sham and a scam