Emails leaked to Newsnight reveal the extent of this winter’s NHS crisis. A bed shortage means patients could be being discharged before they are ready. Subscribe to our channel here: https://goo.gl/31Q53F
NHS staff are saying the service is under strain like never before. Doctors are worried a shortage of beds means patients are being discharged before they are ready or have somewhere suitable to go.
Emails from senior managers at two NHS hospitals reveal a service that is running out of beds, and the despair of those trying to sort it out.
The clinical director at one hospital in Bangor in North Wales said this was “the worst start to a day in… 13 years,” and that meant staff “will have to be risky”. The Royal Oldham Hospital’s Director of Operations said they were facing “one of the worst predicted overnight bed positions that I have ever known in any hospital throughout my career”.
Deborah Cohen reports.
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