Firefighters on standby to plug gaps in care services left by staff shortages, warns Northampton General Hospital CEO

Firefighters on standby to plug gaps in care services left by staff shortages, warns Northampton General Hospital CEO Northampton General Hospital bosses are poised to call in firefighters on standby to visit fall victims instead of care workers to plug gaps left by staff shortages.

In a hard-hitting statement the hospital's CEO appealed for urgent government funding to improve wages and prevent a log-jam in hospital beds this winter. Northampton Chronicle and Echo