Would You like a feature Interview?
All Interviews are 100% FREE of Charge
A new poll shows that 1 in 3 people had to find transportation to the hospital on their own in the past year due to ambulance delays.
Fifty-five percent of the adults surveyed who called an ambulance said the ambulance came and took them to the hospital, while the rest either rushed to the ambulance themselves or did not go to the hospital.
This includes 1 in 6 (17%) who drove a car, 1 in 10 (11%) who took a taxi and 6% who took public transport because the wait time for an ambulance was too long. included.
A poll of Liberal Democrat supporters in Savanta, conducted March 24-26, found that 18% had called an ambulance for themselves or a family member in the past year.
Daisy Cooper, a health spokesperson for the Liberal Democrats, said in response to the latest data that “horrifying numbers reveal the horrors of the UK’s ambulance crisis.”
“Ambulance services are not only left to compensate for the slackness of a broken medical and care system, but the ambulances themselves cannot arrive in time, leaving people driving or taking buses just to get to the A&E. It’s even left to ride,” she continued.
Cooper called the figure “genuinely scandalous” and said government ministers should “apologize to all the people who were forced to go to the hospital on their own because the ambulance was not available in time.”
“This is a matter of life and death and the government doesn’t seem to get it,” she added.
Liberal Democrats are calling for an urgent five-point plan to support ambulance services and ease pressure on hospitals. This includes long-term strategies to improve social care, expand hospital beds and eliminate ambulances waiting outside hospitals.
Wait times for ambulances hit record highs this winter. In December 2022, the average response time for people in need of an ambulance for stroke, severe burns or chest pain in the UK will be 93 minutes, five times his operational target of 18 minutes. .
Emergency departments are also under serious pressure, with 44% of patients waiting at least 30 minutes in ambulances outside A&E in the week starting Jan. 1.
The number of people waiting 12 hours or more to be admitted to A&E also hit a 12-year high in December 2022, with 54,532 people waiting.
Analyst Independent Approximately 6,000 patients suffered permanent or long-term harm due to long waiting times to hand over patients outside A&E in December 2022, with approximately 14,000 patients suffering ‘moderate harm’. I found that it is likely that I suffered from
Health services are set to come under further pressure this week, with up to 250,000 appointments and procedures at risk of having to be postponed due to a junior doctors strike.
A strike by junior doctors began on Tuesday 11 April and is expected to last four days, with the British Medical Association calling for a 35% wage hike to make up for 15 years of below-inflation rises.
NHS Confederation policy director Dr Layla McKay told BBC Radio 4: “What we are hearing from members who are health leaders across the system is that they are more concerned about this than any other strike. That’s it,” he said. today program of the week.
“They believe that the impact will likely be very large and that this will likely affect patient safety, which is a major concern for all healthcare leaders.”