Posted on 10/19/2021 3:07:31 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
Patients waiting at least six hours for an ambulance will become more ‘commonplace’, with exhausted and depleted hospital staff set for ‘a very long winter’, a paramedic has warned.
The UK is facing a ‘bleak’ few months amid reports of increasing waits for A&E care. People who suffer heart attacks or strokes are likely to be the worst affected.
Health services across the country are experiencing four- to six-hour delays in getting to patients, increasing numbers of ambulances waiting outside hospitals and a backlog of 999 calls.
The warning comes as coronavirus deaths rose to their highest daily level since March, while Downing Street said it is keeping a ‘very close eye’ on increasing case rates.
‘Patients are being admitted and what’s happening is they cannot move them straight into A&E, so ambulances have become cabs waiting to unload outside hospitals.
‘Our members are reporting delays of four to six hours in getting to people, which means there can be up to 15 ambulances waiting outside hospitals with patients inside.
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The British health care has been killing 120,000 people a year for many many years.
I post a lot and I create a lot of new threads. If you go to the search bar, put in my name and the category of "Users" you will see what I mean. It comes up with page after page of posts, about 20 posts per page. I went back 10 pages and found that in those approximately 200 posts I used the term FEARPORN! exactly once. You can go back as far as you want but it looks your definition of everything is either very loose or you're an idiot. Which is it?
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