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Patients Forced To Wait Hours In Ambulances Parked Outside A&E Departments
UK Telegraph ^ | 30 May 2009 | Laura Donnelly

Posted on 05/31/2009 7:39:01 AM PDT by penelopesire

"An investigation by The Sunday Telegraph has found that thousands of 999 patients are being left to wait in ambulances in car parks and holding bays, or in hospital corridors – in some cases for more than five hours – before they can even join the queue for urgent treatment.

Experts warn that hospitals are deliberately delaying when they accept patients – or are diverting them to different sites – in order to meet Government targets to treat people within fours hours of admitting them."

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: ungland
Coming to America soon.
1 posted on 05/31/2009 7:39:01 AM PDT by penelopesire
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To: penelopesire
in order to meet Government targets

That is socialized medicine in a nutshell. Nothing to do with medicine, it's all about meeting some abstract guideline.
2 posted on 05/31/2009 7:41:50 AM PDT by allmost
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To: allmost

Yep. It’s scary beyond imagination. This is how the Obama government will get rid of those ‘pesky’ babyboomers....just kill them. Social Security and Medicaid/Medicare problem ‘solved’. (eye roll)


3 posted on 05/31/2009 7:46:09 AM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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Delays to patients arriving to A&E by ambulance are increasing in many parts of the country as hospitals struggle to cope with a massive increase in the number of emergency hospital admissions since family doctors stopped providing routine out-of-hours care. Since the changes were made five years ago, the number of emergency hospital admissions has risen by 30 per cent, while the number of beds fell by more than 20,000.

This sounds like the real story. What was this "change" all about? Anyone?

4 posted on 05/31/2009 7:51:20 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: penelopesire

Obama voters will soon be getting exactly what they voted for (”free” healthcare) good and hard right between the eyes.


5 posted on 05/31/2009 7:51:45 AM PDT by Matchett-PI ("Conservatism is about freedom, and fighting people who want to take it away." Rush Limbaugh)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Good catch. There are so many reasons that government healthcare is doomed to failure. If one bureaucratic rule doesn’t quite do the job, another ridiculous rule will. Americans are fixing to get a very cruel and brutal wake up call with government run healthcare in the coming years as the system breaks down and people die needlessly.


6 posted on 05/31/2009 8:01:02 AM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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bookmarked for future reference.

What’s scary is that so many want to bring this catastrophe to the USA.

And they will.


7 posted on 05/31/2009 8:06:34 AM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: Matchett-PI

Too bad we all will be getting it, whether we voted for it or not.


8 posted on 05/31/2009 8:14:12 AM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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....a massive increase in the number of emergency hospital admissions since family doctors stopped providing routine out-of-hours care.....

I believe that the doctors are effectively on a fixed salary from the govt.
So no incentive to work “overtime” after hours.

A usual socialist problem...

9 posted on 05/31/2009 9:01:25 AM PDT by az_gila (AZ - need less democrats - one Governor down... more to go.)
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To: penelopesire
"Too bad we all will be getting it, whether we voted for it or not."

Not if I can help it.

10 posted on 05/31/2009 9:55:58 AM PDT by Matchett-PI ("Conservatism is about freedom, and fighting people who want to take it away." Rush Limbaugh)
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Think of it as doing your part when the One tells us we all have to sacrifice.


11 posted on 05/31/2009 10:50:07 AM PDT by DPMD (~)
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To: penelopesire
BOHICA!
12 posted on 05/31/2009 12:15:09 PM PDT by upchuck (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office.)
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LOL!


13 posted on 05/31/2009 1:23:24 PM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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