{"id":42754,"date":"2023-01-05T21:08:29","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T10:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=42754"},"modified":"2023-01-05T21:08:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T10:08:29","slug":"a-uk-accident-and-emergency-doctor-speaks-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=42754","title":{"rendered":"A UK Accident and Emergency Doctor Speaks Out"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Honestly so proud of this doctor for sharing this….eye opener ..the government want private care and i feel its all a plan to depopulate and bring in private care<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Posted anonymously by an A&E doctor:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I’m writing this because I\u2019m angry. Actually more than that, I\u2019m fu*king livid.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I\u2019m an A&E reg with 9+ years experience in A&E both here and overseas. This morning was the first time EVER that I cried in my car after a shift.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I was on nights over this New Years period, but New Year was not the issue, every shift is like this now.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Where 5 years ago we had 50 patients in the department on handover at night, we now have 180. It used to be around 20 patients to see with a 1-2 hour wait for clinician, it\u2019s now 60-70 with a 10 hour wait.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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People used to lose their minds if patients were coming up to 4 hour breaches. Last night 60% of the patients in A&E had been there for more than 12 hours, some for more than 40. Many I saw the night before, still in the same place when I came on.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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No triage or obs after 2 hours of arrival, no bloods or ECGs or gas for 4 hours. Regularly finding people in the waiting room after 4 hours with initial gases showing hyperkalamia or severe acidosis or hypoglycaemia.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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87 year olds coming in after falls sitting on chairs for 18 hours. Other elderly patients lying in their own urine for hours because there\u2019s no staff, or even room to change them into something dry. As the reg in charge of the shift, Ive had (on multiple occasions) to help the sole nurse in the area change patients by holding a sheet around the bed because we have to do it in the middle of a corridor. People lying on the floor because there\u2019s no chairs left, trolleys parked literally wherever we can put them.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Things have been getting even worse for the last 3 months. 5 weeks I came home raging to my wife that people are sitting in their own piss for hours and it\u2019s so inhumane. Now we\u2019ve got to the point where people are actually dying. People who\u2019ve been in A&E for 2-3 days,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The media and public might blame the A&E nurses and doctors for this, but honestly what the fu*k are we meant to do with 180 people in a department built for 50. With 8 nurses rather than the MINIMUM staffing of 12. 1 or 2 nurses per area, giving meds, doing obs, trying to provide basic cares to 25-30 people, an absolute impossibility. And there\u2019s less nurses every week, because honestly why would you put yourself through this day after day?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Resus patients are quickly assessed and stepped down to make room for the next pre-alert, going to the area with those same poor nurses, already overstretched, now inheriting an severely unwell patient.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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We need to accept the truth, the NHS isn\u2019t breaking, it\u2019s broken. And the same bastards who broke it are doing reality TV shows and writing books about how they saved the NHS whilst refusing to increase nursing pay. We try and shovel shit with spoons whilst they pour it in with dump trucks<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The NHS as we knew it is dead, and it breaks my heart, because it\u2019s a beautiful system. It shouldn\u2019t be like this, and those of us who have been around for longer than 5 years know it wasn\u2019t always like this.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The public have no idea, they don\u2019t really know how dangerous this all is. When they come in they\u2019re horrified, but most of the population don\u2019t know how bad it is. This could be their mum on a trolley for 17 hours, or their wife or son or daughter.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I genuinely feel it\u2019s now our responsibility to speak out. We don\u2019t for fear that it will make our hospital look bad or harm our careers. But it\u2019s not a hospital problem, it\u2019s a national problem, and it\u2019s a problem brought about by the politics of the people in power.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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We need to shine a light on what they\u2019ve done, make the public so angry that they demand a change. Massive recruitment of nurses through a proper wage\/paid uni\/free parking\/free Nando\u2019s if that\u2019s what it takes would be a start.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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If anyone has any idea how we could coordinate some kind of campaign to show the state of emergency departments in the UK right now please write a response, because I can\u2019t work in this much longer, and more importantly I\u2019m not sure the patients can survive it.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Honestly so proud of this doctor for sharing this….eye opener ..the government want private care and i feel its all a plan to depopulate and bring in private care Posted anonymously by an A&E doctor: I’m writing this because I\u2019m angry. Actually more than that, I\u2019m fu*king livid. I\u2019m an A&E reg with 9+ years … <\/p>\n

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