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 threadDoug 🌈🇨🇦 Dec 30
@ChrisMayLA6 similar problems here in BC. A business friendly government cut taxes, fired 10k nurses, thinned out doctors and said they were going to do 'more with less'. They did less with less and the problems continue. Fortunately Powell River is somewhat isolated so it has the most affordable housing, good schools, great place to raise a family and our hospital has managed to stay well staffed. It would be nice if I didn't have to wait a year for hip replacement and cataract surgery.
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@Oldfartrant @ChrisMayLA6 On UK NHS this waiting time would be about the same for cataract & probably longer for hip afaik.
Dec 30 at 9:28amWeb