Growing numbers of hospitals are struggling to cope with the onset of the NHS’s winter crisis, with one A&E doctor apologising to patients for the “third world conditions” in his overcrowded unit. The SAM represents doctors who care for patients admitted to hospital as medical emergencies but who do not need surgery. Show Hide We will be monitoring the situation in hospitals over the next few months and want to hear your experiences of the NHS this winter. Tracy Bullock, the chief executive of Mid Cheshire hospitals NHS foundation trust, tweeted that, in her 34 years working in the NHS, she had “never seen anything like this. Dr Taj Hassan, the president of the RCEM, warned that patient safety could be at risk because urgent and emergency care is “a system under acute or chronic distress”.

Source: The Guardian January 02, 2018 13:47 UTC