{"id":50758,"date":"2025-01-07T19:49:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T19:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/wes-streeting-says-he-is-ashamed-of-nhs-winter-problems\/"},"modified":"2025-01-07T19:49:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T19:49:00","slug":"wes-streeting-says-he-is-ashamed-of-nhs-winter-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=50758","title":{"rendered":"Wes Streeting says he is ashamed of NHS winter problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said he had also seen ambulance crews taking dying patients into hospital because there was no end-of-life care available for them in the community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It breaks my heart,&#8221; Streeting added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Critical incidents were also declared in the East Midlands, Birmingham, Devon, Cornwall, Northamptonshire and Hampshire.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ssrcss-1x9m6ni-BulletListContainer e5tfeyi0\">\n<ul role=\"list\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The East Midlands Ambulance Service &#8211; which covers Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Northamptonshire and Lincolnshire &#8211;  declared the first critical incident in its history due to a combination of &#8220;significant patient demand, pressure within hospitals and flooding&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Health bosses have asked people suffering from flu, Covid, norovirus or respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) to stay away from the Royal Cornwall Hospital&#8217;s A&amp;E department in Truro<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An influx of patients at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth has also prompted a critical incident<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hampshire Hospitals said, due to &#8220;sustained pressures&#8221; at its Basingstoke and Winchester hospitals, it has also declared a critical incident<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">University Hospitals Birmingham is another trust to have declared a critical incident with an &#8220;exceptional number&#8221; of patients with flu requiring hospital admission<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">NHS services in Northamptonshire have also escalated their status to critical, due to what they say is ongoing demand, particularly at Northampton and Kettering general hospitals<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Critical incidents, which can last for a few hours or several days, allow services to:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They are not unusual at this time of year \u2013 about 30 hospitals declared them at one point at the start of 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But NHS bosses have said the first week of 2025 has been very difficult, as high rates of flu, combined with cold weather and flooding, have caused a surge in demand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Scotland, doctors said hospitals had become gridlocked and were in the middle of a &#8220;winter crisis&#8221; too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Fiona Hunter, from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said: &#8220;We are running on hard work and goodwill, and our patients are receiving unacceptable, undignified and unsafe care in corridors and in the back of ambulances.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c0ewv2ydgwyo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He said he had also seen ambulance crews taking dying patients into hospital because there was&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4605,364,1628,653,877,1412],"class_list":["post-50758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-ashamed","tag-nhs","tag-problems","tag-streeting","tag-wes","tag-winter"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.0 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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