Senior A&E doctor says exhausted Greater Manchester staff at breaking point

The Greater Manchester medic said conditions were so bad that staff had become reluctant to go into work, a situation which they described as “soul destroying”.

 

The doctor, who has asked to remain anonymous, said “Just when you think a shift can’t get any worse, it does.  Recently, there were 180 patients in the department which was way over capacity.

 

“Patients lucky enough to have a bed or trolley line every corridor.

 

They added that there was a three-hour wait for patients to be triaged by the nurse and said “Until that point we don’t know how sick someone is or even what they’ve presented with.”

 

They said many of the staff were “running on adrenaline, but this will run out”, adding that seeing colleagues “tired and breaking and not wanting to come back to their next shirt” was “soul destroying”.

 

A spokesperson from the Department of Health and Social Care said it recognised the pressures the NHS was facing following the impact of the pandemic.

 

It said the department was “working tirelessly to ensure people get the care they need, backed by up to £14.1bn additional funding for health and social care over the next two years.

 

“This includes investing an additional £500m to speed up the safe discharge of patients from hospital, creating the equivalent of 7,000 more beds nationally.”

 

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Posted by Karen Motley, Clinical Negligence Department, Chadwick Lawrence LLP (tonymay@chadlaw.co.uk ), medical negligence lawyers and clinical negligence solicitors in Huddersfield, Leeds, Wakefield and Halifax, West Yorkshire.

 

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