Summary
In this article for The Guardian, an anonymous hospital consultant describes the situation in many NHS emergency departments in January 2023—patients ready for medical admission waiting in ambulances in the hospital car park, patients receiving IV antibiotics in chairs in the corridor and staff completely overwhelmed by the workload. The author highlights that accident and emergency departments are now being used for a purpose for which they were not designed—looking after patients who need to be admitted to hospital wards. They describe the implications of this on patient safety and staff wellbeing and argue that the NHS and Government need to call the situation what it is—a crisis—or we will come to accept poor quality care and low patient safety standards as the norm.
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