To answer one of the questions above, the Red Cross do help with some patient discharges. They provide transport to homes and also initial care in the home. More hospitals are using them.
The choice of words was perhaps wrong, but the government / press / population have so far refused to believe what is happening within the NHS. It won’t be long before people do start die because of problems in the NHS. If this miss use of words helps prevent that from happening then fair enough.
Hospital staffing levels are unsafe, hospitals are over capacity, and social care can not cope.
On Thursday something unprecedented happened in our hospital. A call went out to non clinical members of staff to help out in clinical areas. I spent most of the morning sat with Elsie, a mid 80’s lady with dementia (who didn’t need to be in an acute hospital bed). This enabled the nursing staff to then care for the sick patients.
I have also said before that I know that one of the biggest Trauma Hospitals in the U.K. now routinely only has 50% of its rotas filled.
The bit I don’t understand is that Jeremy wants to run the NHS in to the ground so he can privatise it, but at the moment he’s going that far he could end up doing the one thing politicians don’t like, and that is losing power, but I reckon people will have to die before that happens.
Sad times