UK's statist hospitals 'on brink of collapse'

Subject: UK's statist hospitals 'on brink of collapse' Wed Sep 12, 2012 10:03 pm

Hospitals in England could be on the brink of collapse because of rising demand and the increasing complexity of patients' conditions, doctors warn.

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The Royal College of Physicians' report said the number of beds had been cut by a third over the past 25 years.

It said at the same time emergency admissions had started rising and hospitals were seeing older patients with a wider variety of conditions

The college said this process now meant urgent care was being compromised.

And it warned the problems could lead to another scandal like that surrounding the Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust, which became the subject of a public inquiry after regulators said poor standards had led to needless deaths.

The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) said standards were slipping in hospitals throughout England.

It cited the way older patients were repeatedly moved around wards, the lack of continuity of care while in hospital and tests being done during the night as some of the examples of how care was suffering.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19577489#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

It sounds like they could do with a "shot" of statist medicine...

Are you going Baader-Meinhof on me again?!

UK's statist hospitals 'on brink of collapse'

UK's statist hospitals 'on brink of collapse'

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