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What would be the worse case scenario in the NHS crisis?

What with ambulances queueing up outside and people being treated in corridors because there are no free beds, and operations being cancelled. The Red Cross are already helping out and have said that by definition it is a humanitarian crisis. What would be needed before some huge intervention was required? And who would that intervention be by, and how would it happen?

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  • 4 years ago
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    probably some kind of major terrorist act that would push the already over worked Emergency departments beyond capacity, where the military would probably have to take over setting up emergency hospitals and treatment centres.

    truth is, the government don't care, when they waste money so much, like £50,000 to study if toilet signs will offend anyone.

    that's just 1 example, there are probably thousands, or tens of thousands of 'projects' that have huge funding that could be spent elsewhere.

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    it'll probably also be pushed over the edge because of the cold, more expensive fuel/energy costs so less people heating their homes, more people susceptible to the cold and will end up in hospital.

  • An A and E department closing its doors and refusing to let anyone else in.

    To help solve it you need to open more nursing homes and respite centres where people who are not yet well enough to go home but no longer need hospital care can go to recuperate and have physiotherapyuntil they are well enough to go home. Then you need a good home care package where district nurses and trained staff visit to oversee recovery. That means people are no longer stuck in hospital longer they need to be and are not constantly returned to hospital

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    The worst case scenario of course would be hospitals shutting up shop. Patients turned away at the door.

  • Kevin
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    4 years ago

    where people who are not yet well enough to go home but no longer need hospital care can go to recuperate and have physiotherapyuntil they are well enough to go home. Then you need a good home care package where district nurses and trained staff visit to oversee recovery.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    We would have to pay for some of our healthcare.

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