🔴 People dialling 999 'stuck on hold' and hospitals run out of beds as NHS crisis worsens
to a statement issued earlier this month which acknowledged that a number of factors, including hospital handover delays, was impacting response times.
“NWAS is maximising its resources by putting all clinically trained staff on the responding front line, increasing its use of private providers and working with healthcare partners to guide non-urgent cases to other healthcare services,” the service said. In Essex, a man who suffered a suspected heart attack was kept waiting more than 24 hours for a bed, his family said.his 63-year-old brother-in-law had been reluctant to visit his local hospital with pain around his shoulder but his wife convinced him.
“The pain persisted and his wife convinced him to go to A&E at his local hospital where they diagnosed a heart attack,” said Mr Otridge. “He was taken to Basildon Hospital where they have facilities they require to better understand his condition and he has been on a trolley in A&E ever since. He complains the trolley has given him back ache but no beds are available on the ward.
“It is clear this is no time to be complacent and the risk of serious illness is very real, so with nearly 350,000 available vaccination appointments next week it is important that everyone eligible comes forward and
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