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Lack of space seems like the more fundamental problem in britain, not only in hospitals. Maybe britain can recover the lost art of construction?
by amadeuspagel 3y ago
Lack of space seems like the more fundamental problem in britain, not only in hospitals. Maybe britain can recover the lost art of construction?
- stevenwoo 3y agoThe article states they’ve tried cutting funding for employees and facilities repeatedly because of “austerity” and budget cuts to get to the current situation. They made public spending choices to get here in national and local government. It’s not lack of knowing how to build things, the situation is snowballing from long response times to GP to people resorting to using emergency rooms for first contact with healthcare providers American style.
- DanBC 3y agoA hospital bed isn't a bed - any idiot can buy beds in bulk from any hospital supplier. A hospital bed is a package that consists of the bed and the long list of stuff needed to support that bed, which includes all the staff (doctors, nurses, healthcare assistants, allied health professionals, admin staff, cleaners, porters, food preparation, etc etc) -- and all of these staff are in short supply in England.
- amadeuspagel 3y ago> Fifteen hours after she was taken out of an ambulance at Queen’s Hospital with chest pains and pneumonia, Marian Patten was still in the emergency room, waiting for a bed in a ward. Mrs. Patten, 78, was luckier than others who arrived at this teeming hospital, east of London: She had not yet been wheeled into a hallway.