NHS winter crisis looms

Very funny anya

Just so long as the electricity supply to the care homes and hospitals doesn't run out!

25% of all electricity last year was from renewables, Anya, up from less than 10% in 2011.


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Let's be clear #NHSCrisis was artificially created by Theresa May & her Tories b/c to them good healthcare is for those who can afford it.
5:38 PM - 7 Jan 2017

Someone just asked why Durham A&E is doubling in size .
Probably because newly refurbished local hospitals have had A&E closed down so our ambulances are heading to Durham instead.
An ambulance collected me after a heart attack and couldn't even tell my partner which hospital I was heading for ,so he could follow with a hospital bag. It could be Durham, Darlington ,Bishop Auckland or Hexham ,we'll phone and let you know ,they said ,(they didn't). Brilliant, we can get a bus to Bishop Auckland , that's the reality of living in the sticks . great for OAPs without transport , buses cease at 6pm and none on sundays , no wonder old folk in hospital get depressed

Can't use Brexit money Anya .......we are still paying in to the EU ,but taxes will have to go up at some point and social care needs it's own budget, not lumped into the NHS.

I hope you're better now, elfies. That sounds like a nightmare.

It's doubling in size because it needs to. It was only built in 2001 and is already treating twice as many patients as it was intended to.
I am sure I explained that earlier. It's no longer fit for purpose.

Hope you are okay now, elfies. Where did you end up? I've been in Durham A&E twice over the last three years, and then on the wards, but never to any of the others you mention.

Do you think yiu have sorted the energy shortage then DJ with that scrap of 'info' you tossed into the ether.

This is more like the reality of the lights going out

www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jan/08/an-absolute-warzone-nhs-doctors-describe-their-week-in-ae

Best way to sort the energy crisis out is to renationalise it, stop Chinese and European companies owning them. Not just European companies, but European governments.
Brexit doesn't stop that. Theresa May doesn't want to take back control of our energy supplies, as that would spoil it for her friends, just like with the railways and trains.
"Scrap of info you tossed into the ether"?
You sound like Mair.

By the way, what's wrong with 25% of electricity being provided by renewables? That's when the government has cut its renewables subsidy.
Another 5% needed and that's the tipping point, isn't it? The point when people start to believe in it.
Except the owners and shareholders of the Telegraph, of course. They probably don't even believe in climate change.

The goverment needs to do something to support the hospitals and the staff , the NHS is in a terrible state, my daughters MIL was rushed to hospital last week with suspected stroke, she was kept in an Ambulance for 2 hours as no room in hospital , the she was seen by doctor and the CT brain scan, thankfully it does not seem it was a stroke but those 2 hours could have been vital if she had had 1.

That's what my previous link was about, jacksmum, the warzone in A&E.
One doctor said that when he went on duty, everybody on the trolleys had been waiting for over four hours.

I'm glad she was OK, jacksmum. Another side of that is that the ambulance couldn't have been used, if there had been another emergency.

It isn't really winter yet, either.

This is much more important. We don't even get to talk to a human first.

www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jan/05/nhs-england-trial-medical-advice-smartphone-app

OMG! That's technology gone mad! I can only begin to imagine what kind of problems an app like that will cause. The mind truly boggles!

Heard Jeremy Hunt on Today prog this morning and he doesn't acknowledge there is a crisis in NHS saying there are now more doctors and nurses working, and pressure on NHS can partly be explained by "higher consumer expectations". So answer is folks, lower your expectations...

www.independent.co.uk/voices/nhs-american-doctor-privitisation-i-have-a-message-a7207706.html

From an American doctor who had to take his English cousin to Sunderland infirmary.
We should look after the NHS, and the government should stop trying to run it down.

Jeremy Hunt tells lies.

www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2017/01/09/jeremy-hunt-is-lying-data-shows-january-is-often-the-quietest-time-of-the-year-for-a-e-departments/

Richard Murphy's wife is a GP.

Hunt was on radio 4 this morning his broadcast. Amounted to " crises, what crises"

What an idiot. He would have so much more credence if he took the problem head on.

He's not an idiot. He knows exactly what he's doing.

Yes I think you are right

Hunt has been in charge of NHS England for over six years. His department have consistently pressured hospitals to "increase bed occupancy" - in other words reduce the number of beds. He has also presided over the reduction in funding for social care delivered by local authorities. And the minimum wage has gone up meaning that you get less hours of care for your money. Residential care beds are also declining due to the increased costs. All this at a time when demand is rising. Everyone knew that demand would rise as the number of over 80s climbs steadily.
So Hunt's actions seem to have been a deliberate attempt to undermine the NHS.
It is a crisis of his making.
Implying that it is because people turn up at A and E for trivial reasons is a complete red herring. An A and E consultant on BBC Breakfast just said that although more minor problems are about 30% the work they require is only 5% of total. The problem, he re-iterates, is that there are not enough beds and not enough social care provision available to facilitate discharge and free up beds.

Who do you know who took his kids to A&E a couple of years ago because seeing a GP would take too long?

Thought May was very limp wristed at PMQs over this issue. It could mean one of two things.
Either she isn't wedded to the NHS or she is so overwhelmed with Brexit she hasn't really been paying attention.