NHS winter crisis: what is happening at your hospital?

Senior doctors have taken the unprecedented move of writing to Theresa May, warning that winter pressure mean some patients are dying prematurely. We want to hear about the situation where you are

Patients are dying in hospital corridors this winter, senior doctors have warned in a written letter to prime minister Theresa May.

In an unprecedented move, doctors told May that 120 patients a day are being managed in some hospital corridors, with “some dying prematurely”. They said this was because the NHS is so “chronically underfunded” and dangerously short-staffed.

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Continue reading... January 11, 2018 at 05:58PM