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 threadbeemohDec 30
@ChrisMayLA6 But at least we've only got another two years of dawdling before Streeting releases his report on social care and they can find some other reason not to actually start doing something!
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@beemoh

Yes, there's acres of long grass into which it can be kicked.... again

Dec 30 at 3:39pmWeb