The health secretary promised pressures would not become ‘unsustainable’. But overworked staff can no longer provide a safe service

“Today, with new revelations of the plight of people who die in the back of ambulances and the up to 160,000 more a year who come to harm because they are stuck outside hospitals unable to be admitted to A&E, we all see the extent to which the NHS is struggling in the face of extraordinary pressure.

Let me share with you my perspective from the frontline. The NHS is running on empty. The staff are physically and mentally exhausted. And yet we are constantly asked for more.

Mr Javid, there is no quick and easy solution to this issue, but it should be recognised for what it is. Your blindness and complete aversion to acknowledging that the NHS is already overwhelmed does nothing to help the patients who are waiting 16 hours for an ambulance.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/15/people-dying-ambulances-javid-health-secretary

 

IN OTHER NEWS — Nov 9, 2021 – the UK Government threatens to dismiss 110,000 health care workers if they do not get vaccinated — sure — why not — https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-to-introduce-covid-19-vaccination-as-a-condition-of-deployment-for-all-frontline-health-and-social-care-workers