NHS patients dying in hospital corridors, A&E doctors tell Theresa May

Doctors running 68 A&E departments tell PM patients are dying prematurely because staff are too busy to treat them



Patients are dying in hospital corridors during the ongoing winter crisis because the NHS is so underfunded and short-staffed that it cannot cope, senior doctors have warned Theresa May.

A&E units are under such intense strain that patients are at “intolerable” risk of being harmed by receiving poor care, specialists in emergency medicine from 68 hospitals have told the prime minister in a letter of unprecedented alarm.

In recent weeks some hospitals have become so overloaded that they have been looking after as many as 120 patients a day in corridors, with “some dying prematurely” as a result, the letter says.

The doctors, consultants who work in or run A&E units in England and Wales, have written to May to highlight “the very serious concerns we have for the safety of our patients. This current level of safety compromise is at times intolerable, despite the best efforts of staff.”

Conditions in many A&E units are so appalling that they could kill patients, claim the signatories, who work at both major teaching hospitals and smaller district general hospitals. They include Frimley health trust in Surrey, which May visited last week in an attempt to reassure the public that the NHS was coping well this winter.

“As you will know a number of scientific publications have shown that crowded emergency departments are dangerous for patients. The longer that the patients stay in [the] emergency department after their treatment has been completed, the greater is their morbidity and associated morbidity,” they write.

Drawing on their own experiences in recent weeks ,the doctors who signed the letter painted a stark picture of conditions inside A&E units. Common situations include “over 50 patients at a time waiting beds in the emergency department [and] patients sleeping in clinics as makeshift wards”.

Why would she care?

Why would she care?

The most inept PM in living memory. And that's saying something!

Theresa May doesn't give a rats ass for people like us. I don't know what constituency she represents but those who voted for her must have forgotten how useless she was as Home Secretary.

Why would she care?

The most inept PM in living memory. And that's saying something!

She would be more concerned in her husbands business deal with satisfying Scotland .

Her father being a man of the cloth to makes you wonder about her upbringing does nt it.

Theresa May doesn't give a rats ass for people like us. I don't know what constituency she represents but those who voted for her must have forgotten how useless she was as Home Secretary.

Perhaps thats her reasoning let her own people die an excuse to bring more young immigrants in to take their place for slave labour. After all they said they would punish us for voting Britex and Mrs Maydream was a remainer was she not and wanted to take us back to the victorian times.