Hospitals attack ‘barking mad’ NHS target to manage winter crisis

Official edicts to banish long trolley waits and treatment in corridors are deluded, say trusts

Health service chiefs have been declared “barking mad” for ordering hospitals to ensure no patient is treated in a corridor or languishes on a trolley for hours when this year’s winter crisis hits.

NHS England’s instructions, intended to avoid a repeat of hospitals’ descent into the sort of meltdown seen last year, also say that patients should not have to wait more than 15 minutes in the back of an ambulance outside an A&E unit as they wait to be handed over to hospital staff.

Continue reading... November 19, 2017 at 02:30AM