Posted on 12/01/2022 8:45:00 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
LONDON (AP) — Thousands of patients each week are being stranded for long stretches in ambulances outside overflowing British hospitals, a growing crisis that has likely contributed to scores of deaths, health care leaders said Thursday.
The U.K.’s ambulance service is seizing up in some areas as the country’s health system faces an inferno of pressures, including rising demand for care after pandemic restrictions were eased; a surge in flu and other winter viruses after two lockdown years; and staff shortages from pandemic burnout and a post-Brexit drought of European workers in Britain. Thousands of hospital beds are also occupied by people who are fit to be discharged but have nowhere to go because of a dearth of places for long-term care.
Official statistics show that ambulances in many areas are stuck waiting outside hospital emergency departments, sometimes for hours, because there are no beds for the patients. Figures published Thursday by the National Health Service showed 31% of patients arriving at hospitals in England by ambulance waited at least 30 minutes to be handed over last week, and 15% waited more than an hour.
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More government money does not equate to better outcomes.
Just follow the NIH guidelines, get boostered up and everyone will be fine. 🔬🤔😵🚫😷💉
did the Pandemic turn 100’s of millions of people into hypochondriacs
BUT state-run health-care gives FREE treatment!!!
AP: “and staff shortages from ... a post-Brexit drought of European workers in Britain.”
Fact: There are now more European workers in Britain than at any time since the Brexit vote.
There are also a lot more "Asians" in Britain, enough to have a Muslim London mayor and an Indian PM.
Far better an explanation, not enough staffing for the patients. Let us recall the imagery of the dancing nurses and "clap" for the heroes of the NHS. Mix in the years of coverage than the NHS is top-heavy with administration. Government at its finest.
“White countries” have gone full retard.
There’s nothing wrong with the land in most Asia and Africa.
There’s something wrong with the people.
On the positive side, the patients don’t have to pay for it directly out of pocket.
The word “Crisis” doesn’t seem to fit the sentence also containing “Best healthcare in the world”
It does, however, fit “Free healthcare” pretty well.
Even after they changed the emergency services number to
0118 999 881 999 119 725 3
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HWc3WY3fuZU
I bet the illegals don’t get treated as bad as a native.
Wait until the NHS is inundated with hypothermia patients as Britons can’t heat their homes.
Gotta love socialized medicine.
They won’t go to the hospital.
They’ll go to the morgue.
maybe have the EMTs start triaging frequent fliers and such out...
Yeah but look on the bright side. The health care in the UK is free!
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