First hospital has to close

Mups · January 13, 2025, 02:48:40 PM

I have just seen that the first NHS hospital in the UK has now closed its doors to visitors and any new admissions, because of the Flu epidemic.

Others are advertising for 'Corridor nurses,' to care for those who can't get into a ward.

We have been through all this before, haven't we.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/other/nhs-hospital-suspends-all-visiting-and-new-admissions-over-major-flu-outbreak/ar-BB1rm8Nx?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=2f6e88ca38754cfcebf99ed30ac99e48&ei=11

klondike · January 13, 2025, 03:16:41 PM

I've been spending my evenings in A&E for a week now - saves having the heating on.

Mups · January 13, 2025, 04:54:11 PM

Quote from: klondike on January 13, 2025, 03:16:41 PMI've been spending my evenings in A&E for a week now - saves having the heating on.

What are we going to do with yer, ey?

GrannyMac · January 13, 2025, 05:34:50 PM

Quote from: klondike on January 13, 2025, 03:16:41 PMI've been spending my evenings in A&E for a week now - saves having the heating on.

Sounds like a plan! Libraries for free tea and coffee and a warm in the day!

klondike · January 13, 2025, 05:43:02 PM

Quote from: GrannyMac on January 13, 2025, 05:34:50 PMLibraries for free tea and coffee and a warm in the day!

Ours are mostly shut now. There's always supermarkets with free nibbles on every aisle (if nobody is looking)

Scrumpy · January 13, 2025, 06:13:59 PM

Quote from: klondike on January 13, 2025, 05:43:02 PMOurs are mostly shut now. There's always supermarkets with free nibbles on every aisle (if nobody is looking)

We can take anything we fancy.. Up to 200 pounds before the police bother to come out..

What do you fancy?

Ashy · January 17, 2025, 12:59:30 PM

The NHS has never had enough beds for patients in winter with one inexplicable exception, when there was supposed to have been a pandemic. Despite this the number of beds, and indeed the number of hospitals, available to the public has been reduced considerably despite an increase in the population.

Scrumpy · January 17, 2025, 01:59:21 PM

I had a car accident many years back.. 15/20 years..
It was a head on accident that involved around 3/4 cars.. I was taken to the local hospital and was treated .. on a trolley.. in the corridor.. Along with other patients..
Lack of beds has been going on for many years..

Alex · January 17, 2025, 03:15:21 PM

Hospitals across England remain under extreme pressure from winter flu cases with one hospital advertising for nurses to take on "corridor shifts" in its A&E department to help manage the surge in patients.

Independent

muddy · January 21, 2025, 08:57:20 AM

Corridor ?
Eeh what luxury

Some have to make do with the car park .

Mups · January 21, 2025, 01:53:11 PM

Quote from: muddy on January 21, 2025, 08:57:20 AMCorridor ?
Eeh what luxury

Some have to make do with the car park .

I even read a couple of days ago about somewhere where a patient even had to be treated in the toilet!!

There was also a picture of all the patients lined up on trolleys in reception, until someone asked for them to moved because no one could get to the reception desk.

Apart from all the chaos, it must be very embarrassing to be dumped in full public view like that if you are perhaps vomitting, need the loo, or freezing cold.