Posted on 10/19/2021 3:07:31 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
Patients waiting at least six hours for an ambulance will become more ‘commonplace’, with exhausted and depleted hospital staff set for ‘a very long winter’, a paramedic has warned.
The UK is facing a ‘bleak’ few months amid reports of increasing waits for A&E care. People who suffer heart attacks or strokes are likely to be the worst affected.
Health services across the country are experiencing four- to six-hour delays in getting to patients, increasing numbers of ambulances waiting outside hospitals and a backlog of 999 calls.
The warning comes as coronavirus deaths rose to their highest daily level since March, while Downing Street said it is keeping a ‘very close eye’ on increasing case rates.
‘Patients are being admitted and what’s happening is they cannot move them straight into A&E, so ambulances have become cabs waiting to unload outside hospitals.
‘Our members are reporting delays of four to six hours in getting to people, which means there can be up to 15 ambulances waiting outside hospitals with patients inside.
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Killing off the middle class
This isn’t fear porn.
It’s SSDD.
Let hear it for socialized medicine.
Clap for carers!
It’s free tho....
One of the funniest things I’ve ever seen m.
The IT Crowd Star Trek parody is even better.
One of the famous bakers waited over 3 hours for ambulance when she broke her hip
JFTR, “999” is the same type of telephone service as 911 in the USA, and “A&E” stands for “accident and emergency”, AKA the emergency room.
Two visits to the UK cured me of any desire for socialized medicine.
Pity we can’t prescribe that for supporters.
A lot of those people won’t be waiting, and they’ll be gone.
So they have to wait an extra 30 minutes will they even notice?
999 is a Joke!
Still difficult for me to imagine hearing “Get up, get get get down, 999’s a joke in your town” in a Cockney accent . . .
That was Mary Berry
Dying while waiting for an ambulance beats being killed after getting admitted to the hospital.
Bigger concern should be deaths of the elderly due to hypothermia because they cannot afford to heat their homes or are caught in fuel shortages and blackouts.
Good point. What is the “regular” waiting time in a government run medical system?
Yes the climatards are going to be responsible for a LOT of hardship this coming winter.
I lived there for almost a decade. The NHS SUCKS!
Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
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