NHS rejects claims of 'humanitarian crisis' in England's hospitals

BBC ^ | 01/07/2017

[BenLurkin]

One of NHS England's specialist directors said he thought the service was not "at that point" of crisis, but admitted demand was higher than ever.

The Red Cross helps some hospitals with patient transport and provides care for patients who have returned home.

Labour's Jeremy Corbyn urged Theresa May to tell MPs how she would fix the "national scandal" of the NHS.

Mr Corbyn said: "The fact is, this government have repeatedly failed to put the necessary resources into our health service, while they have cut social care and wasted billions on a top-down reorganisation to accelerate privatisation."

The Labour leader said he was "demanding" that Theresa May appeared at the Commons on Monday to explain "how she plans to fix her failure on the NHS".

It comes as a third of hospital trusts in England warned they needed action to cope with patient numbers last month.

Figures show that 42 A&E departments ordered ambulances to divert to other hospitals last week - double the number during the same period in 2015.

[Steely Tom]

One of NHS England's specialist directors said he thought the service was not "at that point" of crisis, but admitted demand was higher than ever.

We're not at that point yet.

When we get to that point, I'll tell you.

But we're not at that point yet.

[RetiredTexasVet]

Not to worry, the patient overload crisis will eventually take of itself if we just wait! Look at Venezuela’s many crisises.

[Still Thinking]

They RUN the place, of course they think (or at least say) it’s fine.

Mouse in charge of cheese: “Oh yeah, the cheese is in GREAT shape. No problems here!”