Thursday, 8 March 2018

NHS intensive care units sending patients elsewhere due to lack of beds

NHS intensive care units sending patients elsewhere due to lack of beds Exclusive: Doctors say 80% of units sending patients to other hospitals amid chronic shortages

Patients whose lives are at risk are being turned away from their local hospitals because of a lack of intensive care beds, doctors who work in those units have revealed.

Four in five intensive care units (ICUs) are having to send patients to other hospitals as a result of chronic bed and staff shortagesContinue reading... The Guardian

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