Emergency staff have told of ambulances effectively being used as hospital cubicles as exhausted crews wait outside A&E departments.
with patients outside full A&E departments as the NHS comes under intense pressure
Another told of how she apologetically tells patients that the ‘NHS is broken’ and said she had to be relieved by another crew while stuck outside a hospital with an elderly patient at the end of a shift. ‘The hospital staff just don’t have the resources to look after the numbers of patients that are coming in. In effect, our ambulances are being used as cubicles outside.’Mr Gorman spoke as A&E and minor injury departments registered their worst performance on record, with 68.9% of patients being seen within four hours last month. The NHS target is for 95% to be admitted, transferred or discharged within the timeframe.
‘It’s stressful enough with the type of incidents we go to because of the nature of the job and this just exacerbates the situation.’ Mr Gorman said: ‘Nobody wants to go on strike but we haven’t got a choice. Every time we make an offer to get round the table and have a conversation about trying to get a reasonable resolution and a sensible pay offer the government has just refused.
The responder, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said: ‘The staff, me included, are getting fed up with having to sit around in ambulances for hours on end. We constantly have to tell the hospital how the patient is doing, keep taking observations and making sure the patient is alright. NHS staff want a pay settlement reflecting inflation as they come under increasing strain on the frontline
Nurses are calling on the government to provide a new pay settlement ahead of scheduled strike action
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