Tuesday 18 November 2014

More hospitals face A&E crisis like Colchester

More hospitals face A&E crisis like Colchester Chronic underfunding endemic in emergency care, warns one of Englands most senior doctors, after major incident declared.

A number of other hospitals in England are likely to be facing severe problems of staff shortages and patient-demand of the scale that prompted the declaration of a major incident at Colchester hospital last week, one of the countrys most senior doctors has warned.

Dr Clifford Mann, president of the College of Emergency Medicine, says hospitals are feeling acute pressure over accident and emergency units, in part because these are often inadequately funded under the system through which the government finances healthcare. Continue reading... The Guardian

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