'SIX HOUR' wait in ambulance as '100 patients fit to go home stuck in beds'

A paramedic emerged from the ‘worst shift’ he’d ever had to report one patient waiting six hours in the back of an ambulance as the NHS suffers ‘New Year’s Eve’ level pressures. ‘The NHS has collapsed’, warned the paramedic, as hospitals, ambulance services, GP practices and more face crippling pressure across the country.

Hospitals running out of beds A patient waited in an ambulance outside A&E for 370 minutes, while ‘multiple patients’ were waiting up to three hours in the queue of 15 ambulances outside Stepping Hill’s A&E on Tuesday evening, said the paramedic. A patient with severe sepsis, on oxygen, waited some 20 minutes.

In Stepping Hill this week, the paramedic said there are ‘100 patients’ stuck because there is nowhere to go in the community. NHS chiefs in Greater Manchester tell the M.E.N. there is simply not enough social care to go around. “The NHS has collapsed and the government doesn’t give a damn. Hospital staff are trying their best and most patients and families are understanding, but never in my life have I seen anything like it.”

Medics should also be ‘creating capacity’ in acute hospitals, as Mr Powis urged staff to move patients out of emergency departments and into ‘observation areas’ as soon as possible to create space. ‘Additional beds’ should be found elsewhere in hospitals. Several paramedics and doctors the Manchester Evening News has spoken to say the solution requires major commitments from the government to create a workforce plan sufficient for the growing demands on the NHS and social care - more skilled staff are needed and they cannot be created overnight. They have also said a major financial investment is needed to add beds and space in social care - otherwise the NHS will ‘collapse’, they fear.

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