Ulster Hospital: Bed pressures ‘worse than during Covid’
A senior hospital manager says it is difficult to secure community care for vulnerable discharged patients. Source link
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Ambulance pressures: Thousands of taxis sent following 999 calls
Figures obtained by the BBC show taxi firms increasingly being used to assist front-line services. Source link
Child deaths expose mental health unit pressures
Dr Bernadka Dubicka, editor in chief of the Journal of Child and Adolescent Mental Health, said that Camhs wards can be a “lifeline” for many patients, and that while there is “an awful lot of variation in [standards of] practice… there are a lot of excellent staff who are really striving to do their best”. … Read more
Covid: Greater Manchester hospitals cancel surgery as NHS pressures mount
Ambulance queues When patients arrive at hospital by ambulance they should be handed over within 15 minutes. This data shows the proportion of ambulance patients who waited 30 minutes or more, in the week shown. It comes from daily situation reports which are published weekly during the winter in England. As this is fast-turnaround data, … Read more