Andy_W
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This Twitter thread from John Burn Murdoch looks at the current A&E crisis, and how that's causing 500 excess deaths per week in the UK, which is now more of a problem than Covid, on its own. Fair to assume the same reasons for the A&E failures are causing excess deaths elsewhere also.
This is what the Tories do for the NHS, screw up investment, screw up ambulances, screw up A&E waits, screw up available beds, screw up social care, screw up preventative measures and you end up with an absolute **** storm. I knew it was bad, but didn't realise it was this bad.
A massive cause is the lack of beds that we have available, which has been declining since the Tories got into power (was 14%, now 7%). Another problem is we have double the number of people waiting to be discharged in beds than we do have available beds. We now have 13% of beds occupied by people waiting to be discharged! The main reason they've not been discharged is that there's nowhere to discharge them to, underfunded social care and support, lack of care home beds etc. Then along with that loads of other issues to do with being understaffed.
Hospital admissions are lower than 2019 too, and less of the A&E admissions are requiring a hospital bed, so we're having major problems, and it's not because we have more people attending the hospital/ A&E and needing beds. We just can't get those in beds who need them, and then once we do we can't get them out.
Shocking state of affairs, and our problem is getting worse, worse than all of Europe and we're getting worse, and they're all getting better.
Our current excess deaths are 9%, and there are zero excuses.
This is what the Tories do for the NHS, screw up investment, screw up ambulances, screw up A&E waits, screw up available beds, screw up social care, screw up preventative measures and you end up with an absolute **** storm. I knew it was bad, but didn't realise it was this bad.
A massive cause is the lack of beds that we have available, which has been declining since the Tories got into power (was 14%, now 7%). Another problem is we have double the number of people waiting to be discharged in beds than we do have available beds. We now have 13% of beds occupied by people waiting to be discharged! The main reason they've not been discharged is that there's nowhere to discharge them to, underfunded social care and support, lack of care home beds etc. Then along with that loads of other issues to do with being understaffed.
Hospital admissions are lower than 2019 too, and less of the A&E admissions are requiring a hospital bed, so we're having major problems, and it's not because we have more people attending the hospital/ A&E and needing beds. We just can't get those in beds who need them, and then once we do we can't get them out.
Shocking state of affairs, and our problem is getting worse, worse than all of Europe and we're getting worse, and they're all getting better.
Our current excess deaths are 9%, and there are zero excuses.
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