Nhs patients die in ambulances outside a & e as corridor care ‘extends to Car Parks’

Nurses have issured a stark warning over the safety and care of patients and revealed the shat Dangerous place to be for an injured person trying to Access Help in the UK

Corridor Care Has “Extended Into the Car Park” of Hospitals and One of the Riskitest Places for Being Is Now in Ambulance A & E, Nurses Have Warned. They Said Serious Unwell and Injured Patients Were Receiving “Unacceptable” Levels of Care in Ambulances Emergency Departments Who Were Full to Accept.

One Told Delegates at the Royal College of Nursing’s Annual Conference How A Patient Had died after Waiting in the Back of an Ambulance for More than 24 Hours, Adding: “This is Not Care, It Is Abuse.” The Highest-Risk Place in the Nhs Is Now “The Back of an Ambulance”, Said Nurse Alison Milliken, Who Proposed the Debate at the Conference in Liverpool.

Said: “Acoss the four uk nations we see what can be only be described as a crisis: unprecedented delay in the ambulance handovers are leaving inpatients in ambulances for hours, Sometimes entire shifts, outside empergency departments that simot.

“These vehicles are not equipped for prolonged care. They are not designated to be treated areas. They are not staffed for extended patient care, and have had quietly become overflow spaces and an informal extension of the empergeny departments.”

IT FOUR MONTHS AFTER THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF Nursing Published A Harrowing 460-Page Report on CARERRAD CARE IN THE NHS, SAYING IT HAD Normalized and Is the Has Ever Been.

In the Landmark Report Testimony from 5,000 Nurses Laid Bare the Consequents of a DeCade of NHS Under-ending with Patients Spending Hours Slowly dying on trolleys in busy corridors and a dead patiund a pile of coats in a waing room.

Seven in ten nurses said they were daily delivering care in over-crowded or unsuitable places like corridors, converted cupboards, bathrooms, cloakrooms, paediatric recovery rooms with children in and even car parks – something that had previously been a temporary Measure for Emergencies.

Nurses on tuesday unanimously aggregated to presses the government to decide who Should Take Responsibility for the Lives of Patients Waiting Outside Hospital A & Es. Currently, there are no rules saying whether ambulance or hospital staff should Charge in these situations, meaning patients can end up with anyone taching Overall Responsibility for Their Welfare.

Denise Kelly, Chair of RCN’s Trade Union Committee, Told the Conference: “This isn’t Just Corridor Care. ITE’S ben extended the back of the Car Park, ino the back of an ambulance, and i beComing… Our Staff and, Most Importantly, for All Patients. “

Alison Milliken Said Patients Being Ced for Ambulances was part of the Wider Corridor Care Crisis. She added: “We are seeing the Same Dangerous trends spilling beyond hospital wallets and into Ambulance Bays.”

IT FOLLOWS RELEASED LAST MONTH WHICH SHOWED HALF OF Ambulance Crews Had Waited at Least Six to Handover Patients to A&E, while in Seven Had Waited Outside Departments for More Than 12 Hours. More than two Thirds of 600 Ambulance Staff Surveyed by the Union Said They Had Seen Patients During Long Waits to Enter A & E. One in 20 Said A Patient Had died in their Care while Waiting.

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