Summary
Dr Katherine Henderson is a senior A&E consultant in London and the president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine. In this article for The Guardian, she describes the deep crisis facing urgent and emergency care in the UK. She describes hospital warnings of dangerous delays that have seen vulnerable patients waiting hours to be seen and admitted to hospital. This is dangerous, frustrating and undignified for patients, but also distressing for staff, who are finding themselves unable to offer the quality of care they want to deliver.
Dr Henderson attributes the issues to shortfalls in healthcare staff and hospital beds, but also a lack of capacity in community care that is delaying patients being discharged from hospital. The situation is exacerbated by staff absence due to Covid-19. To tackle the crisis, she calls for clear plan to increase bed capacity and a robust, fully funded long-term workforce plan.
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