Scotland needs 1000 new hospital beds to deal with a bed-blocking crisis clogging up the entire health service
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Loughrey, who sees the pressure at emergency departments daily as an emergency medicine consultant, said: “We need more beds in Scotland – we are about 1000 beds short. The true problem isn’t too many people coming to see us who shouldn’t be there. “We use a four-hour-safety standard in emergency departments to make sure patients flow into the system in time but after five or six hours there is increased risk of harm or even death by long emergency department stays.
“They haven’t had the care of a paramedic or technician who could have administered highly practical medicine but they arrive unheralded and we don’t have a space for them.” He insisted the crisis is the worst he has ever seen and blamed Brexit. MacAskill cited the “short-sighted immigration policies of Johnson”.
“There is a very high standard of professional conduct. We have to make sure there are appropriate qualifications, regulated and overseen, all that expectation on someone earning £10.90 an hour.
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