Posted on 01/02/2018 5:42:01 PM PST by dynachrome
Hospitals’ inability to keep up with the demand for care on Tuesday night prompted NHS England to tell them to take unprecedented measures to try and stabilise the service.
They included cancelling outpatient appointments and day case surgery, extending an existing ban on non-urgent surgery until the end of the month and deploying consultants in A&E units to assess if patients really are a medical emergency.
Amid growing evidence of chaos as the NHS’s winter crisis bites, hospitals are being forced to create makeshift wards for patients, growing numbers are declaring a black alert – an official admission that they cannot cope – and patients are waiting as long as 12 hours for A&E care.
“We are seeing conditions that people have not experienced in their working lives,” said Dr Taj Hassan, an A&E consultant in Leeds and president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM), which represents A&E doctors.
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The end result if obozocare is permanent
Tell the idiots with Colds to go home and take an Aspirin
“We are seeing conditions that people have not experienced in their working lives,”
And their non working lives too..
Slow learners.
So they admit they have “Third World conditions” .... but they can’t figure out WHY ?????
Just think how much worse it would be if not for Al’s Gerbal Worming.
What are they going to do when the real mini ice age hits and it gets seriously cold?
Obama, Hitlery and Burnie need to get over there and tell them how to do it.
Margaret Thatcher warned this would happen decades ago, “Eventually, you run out of Other People’s Money”.
NHS = socialized “healthcare,” so just euthanize every sick person over 59.
It’s called the Liverpool Pathway. ...and applies to premature babies. ..Down Syndrome. ...and young guys smashed up in car crashes.
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