| Welsh Ambulance Service declares critical incident ... 00:03 - Dec 31 with 810 views | theloneranger |
"The Welsh Ambulance Service has declared a critical incident because of increased demand across the 999 service and extensive hospital handover delays."
"It said more than 340 calls were waiting to be answered across Wales at the time the critical incident was declared on Monday evening."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62z14perego |  |
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| Welsh Ambulance Service declares critical incident ... on 08:47 - Dec 31 with 732 views | felixstowe_jack |
As Drakeford has said many times "we do things differently in Wales " |  |
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| Welsh Ambulance Service declares critical incident ... on 09:12 - Dec 31 with 717 views | Scotia |
More than half of Ambulances are waiting to hand over patients outside hospitals. That's appalling. | | | |
| Welsh Ambulance Service declares critical incident ... on 09:27 - Dec 31 with 680 views | Boundy |
Morriston Hospital have now declared only carers / parents are to visit the children's ward and masks to be worn. I'm not sure about the rest of the hospital. | |
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| Welsh Ambulance Service declares critical incident ... on 09:38 - Dec 31 with 674 views | AnotherJohn |
| Welsh Ambulance Service declares critical incident ... on 09:12 - Dec 31 by Scotia |
More than half of Ambulances are waiting to hand over patients outside hospitals. That's appalling. |
The story one tends to hear from the hospitals is that the problem in major A&E units is not so much an increase in numbers coming through their doors, but a lack of capacity in the wider hospital with the result that patients can't be moved from A&E to the wards. I don't know whether this applies in Morriston. Personally I'd be surprised if it isn't both things in many hospitals. | | | |
| Welsh Ambulance Service declares critical incident ... on 10:08 - Dec 31 with 654 views | JACKMANANDBOY |
I wonder how long all this will go on before somebody tries something different. |  |
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| Welsh Ambulance Service declares critical incident ... on 10:20 - Dec 31 with 645 views | SullutaCreturned |
Several years back, about 9 or 10 maybe, I posted on here that there were over 10 ambulances queueing outside A&E. Some wag told me that there couldn't be because there aren't that many spaces. Well in this story it says one day there were 16 ambo's waiting there.
16...that is potentially 16 people dying out here somewhere, waiting for an ambo that will never come.
It was the Senedd that cut beds and A&E's here in Wales, I know someone will turn up to say ah, but Westminster...it was the SENEDD's decision, Mark Drakeford was health minister at the time i think. | | | |
| Welsh Ambulance Service declares critical incident ... on 11:03 - Dec 31 with 620 views | lifelong |
| Welsh Ambulance Service declares critical incident ... on 10:20 - Dec 31 by SullutaCreturned |
Several years back, about 9 or 10 maybe, I posted on here that there were over 10 ambulances queueing outside A&E. Some wag told me that there couldn't be because there aren't that many spaces. Well in this story it says one day there were 16 ambo's waiting there.
16...that is potentially 16 people dying out here somewhere, waiting for an ambo that will never come.
It was the Senedd that cut beds and A&E's here in Wales, I know someone will turn up to say ah, but Westminster...it was the SENEDD's decision, Mark Drakeford was health minister at the time i think. |
Not just happening in Wales, apparently.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn4xrzxrkz2o |  | | |
| Welsh Ambulance Service declares critical incident ... on 11:08 - Dec 31 with 615 views | onehunglow |
It’s happened at our major hospital.
It doesn’t take much | |
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| Welsh Ambulance Service declares critical incident ... on 11:12 - Dec 31 with 612 views | SullutaCreturned |
This is interesting...
The total number of NHS hospital beds in England has more than halved over the past 30 years, from around 299,000 in 1987/88 to 141,000 in 2019/20, while the number of patients treated has increased significantly.
Most other advanced health care systems have also reduced bed numbers in recent years. However, the UK has fewer acute beds relative to its population than many comparable health systems.
Since 1987/88, the largest percentage reductions in bed numbers have occurred in mental illness and learning disability beds as a result of long-term policies to move these patients out of hospital and provide care in the community.
The number of hospital beds for general and acute care has fallen by 44 per cent since 1987/88; the bulk of this fall is due to closures of beds for the long-term care of older people. Medical innovation, including an increase in day-case surgery, has also had an impact by reducing the time that many patients spend in hospital.
While reductions in bed numbers have slowed in recent years, there are opportunities to make better use of existing beds by preventing avoidable admissions, reducing variations in length of stay and improving the discharge of patients.
However, research shows that initiatives to moderate demand for hospital care often struggle to succeed. Progress depends on having sufficient capacity to provide appropriate care outside hospital, yet evidence suggests that intermediate care capacity is currently only enough to meet around half of demand and cuts in funding have led to significant reductions in publicly funded social care.
Before the Covid-19 pandemic there was widespread evidence of a growing shortage of beds. In 2019/20, overnight general and acute bed occupancy averaged 90.2 per cent, and regularly exceeded 95 per cent in winter, well above the level many consider safe.
It is not yet clear when and at what level hospital beds will stabilise after the pandemic. With hospitals under real strain from rising demand, significant waiting lists following the Covid-19 pandemic, staff shortages and many competing demands on NHS budgets after a decade-long funding squeeze, further reductions are both unachievable and undesirable.
How hospital beds are used depends on the availability of other services, yet national data does not provide a full picture of NHS bed capacity and requirements. As the health and care system emerges from the pandemic, greater clarity from NHS national bodies is needed on their expectations for overall health and care bed capacity over the medium term, and the consequences of these choices.
From April 2022 to March 2024, 43% of A&E attendees waited more than four hours, and 10% waited more than 12 hours
ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/healthcaresystem/articles/accidentandemergencywaittimesacrosstheuk/2024-02-28 | | | |
| Welsh Ambulance Service declares critical incident ... on 14:02 - Dec 31 with 518 views | lifelong |
| Welsh Ambulance Service declares critical incident ... on 11:08 - Dec 31 by onehunglow |
It’s happened at our major hospital.
It doesn’t take much |
It’s happening in other parts of the UK also, but nothing is mentioned about that, the NHS has major problems nationwide, | | | |
| Welsh Ambulance Service declares critical incident ... on 14:08 - Dec 31 with 511 views | felixstowe_jack |
A lot of us can remember when we had two Casualties hospitals in Swansea. One at Singleton and one or Morriston.
In 1977 is was decided to downgrade Singleton hospital to a MIU, Minor Injuries Unit and upgrade Morriston to an A&E unit.
The Singleton MIU was temporarily closed in 2019 due to refurbishment. It never fully reopened after that, the health authority citing staff shortages . It is about time our health authority reopened Singleton MIU with the goal of updating it to an A&E unit .
Morriston cannot cope with the current demands put upon it.
This would of course eases the problem of ambulances waiting outside Morriston. | |
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| Welsh Ambulance Service declares critical incident ... on 15:00 - Dec 31 with 477 views | controversial_jack |
| Welsh Ambulance Service declares critical incident ... on 09:27 - Dec 31 by Boundy |
Morriston Hospital have now declared only carers / parents are to visit the children's ward and masks to be worn. I'm not sure about the rest of the hospital. |
It's all of the hospital | | | |
| Welsh Ambulance Service declares critical incident ... on 17:12 - Dec 31 with 420 views | SullutaCreturned |
| Welsh Ambulance Service declares critical incident ... on 14:02 - Dec 31 by lifelong |
It’s happening in other parts of the UK also, but nothing is mentioned about that, the NHS has major problems nationwide, |
Well I've looked and I can't find anything that says it's happening as often across the rest of the Uk as it is in Wales. The waits at English A&E's are shorter to start with.
We don't mention other parts of the UK because, this should be obvious, we live in Wales and we want Wales to improve. If people insist on whataboutery then how about this, if Wales was far better than England but was utter rubbish, would we still look at England and say, it could be worse, or would we want to improve?
That is what it comes down to, whatever a few people may say, this isn't about knocking Wales, this is about wanting better.
Happy new year everybody. | | | |
| Welsh Ambulance Service declares critical incident ... on 17:39 - Dec 31 with 402 views | lifelong |
| Welsh Ambulance Service declares critical incident ... on 17:12 - Dec 31 by SullutaCreturned |
Well I've looked and I can't find anything that says it's happening as often across the rest of the Uk as it is in Wales. The waits at English A&E's are shorter to start with.
We don't mention other parts of the UK because, this should be obvious, we live in Wales and we want Wales to improve. If people insist on whataboutery then how about this, if Wales was far better than England but was utter rubbish, would we still look at England and say, it could be worse, or would we want to improve?
That is what it comes down to, whatever a few people may say, this isn't about knocking Wales, this is about wanting better.
Happy new year everybody. |
‘It’s not about knocking Wales’…really?
Anyway, happy new year to you also. | | | |
| Welsh Ambulance Service declares critical incident ... on 17:41 - Dec 31 with 400 views | onehunglow |
| Welsh Ambulance Service declares critical incident ... on 17:39 - Dec 31 by lifelong |
‘It’s not about knocking Wales’…really?
Anyway, happy new year to you also. |
And you you n all ya crusty bugger
Stay around for some more time to come to have verbal jousting parties | |
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| Welsh Ambulance Service declares critical incident ... on 17:57 - Dec 31 with 394 views | Boundy |
| Welsh Ambulance Service declares critical incident ... on 17:39 - Dec 31 by lifelong |
‘It’s not about knocking Wales’…really?
Anyway, happy new year to you also. |
Just y to be clear it's knocking the tossers who run it , even though they're Welsh they're fallible , incompetent and shouldn't be any where near running our country , agree? | |
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| Welsh Ambulance Service declares critical incident ... on 18:21 - Dec 31 with 370 views | lifelong |
| Welsh Ambulance Service declares critical incident ... on 17:41 - Dec 31 by onehunglow |
And you you n all ya crusty bugger
Stay around for some more time to come to have verbal jousting parties |
I aim to, entered my 78th year a few weeks ago, entering the departure lounge but not quite ready for the flight yet. | | | |
| Welsh Ambulance Service declares critical incident ... on 20:49 - Dec 31 with 296 views | SullutaCreturned |
| Welsh Ambulance Service declares critical incident ... on 17:39 - Dec 31 by lifelong |
‘It’s not about knocking Wales’…really?
Anyway, happy new year to you also. |
Of course it's about wanting better, criticisng the Senedd is NOT criticising Wales anymore than criticisng Biden or Trump is criticisng the USA.
Is pointing out Westminsters faults criticisng England or the UK?
Was criticisng Levein and Kaplan criticising Swansea City?
Can you not see the difference? | | | |
| Welsh Ambulance Service declares critical incident ... on 09:44 - Jan 1 with 176 views | Boundy |
| Welsh Ambulance Service declares critical incident ... on 14:08 - Dec 31 by felixstowe_jack |
A lot of us can remember when we had two Casualties hospitals in Swansea. One at Singleton and one or Morriston.
In 1977 is was decided to downgrade Singleton hospital to a MIU, Minor Injuries Unit and upgrade Morriston to an A&E unit.
The Singleton MIU was temporarily closed in 2019 due to refurbishment. It never fully reopened after that, the health authority citing staff shortages . It is about time our health authority reopened Singleton MIU with the goal of updating it to an A&E unit .
Morriston cannot cope with the current demands put upon it.
This would of course eases the problem of ambulances waiting outside Morriston. |
and the population shrunk or are we having less accidents? | |
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