Sorry, forgot to say how interesting it is that there has been nothing from our
glorious government in response to our performance over Christmas and in
relation to 98%. I hear it is because we all failed dismally - surprise,
surprise - now who could have predicted that I wonder??
Sue
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> Dear all,
>
> Is it just yorkshire or has the rest of the world gone mad.
> We in Scarborough have always had the odd day when we had a high throughput
> and patients
> lying on trolleys due to lack of beds in the hospital. Because it was rare,
> we had little support
> from the rest of the Health Economy when the Emergency Collaborative was in
> existance.
> Since autumn we have seen the "bed blocking" that has been comonplace in the
> big cities and
> was the cause of the ESC in the first place.
> Since Christmas we have been inundated and now 20% breaches due to lack of
> bed spaces is
> almost routine. I understand that Hull and York are also suffering and I have
> heard from
> Rotherham that things went bad over christmas. Is it just local or is it all
> over the country?
> I note that the Government haven't been crowing about the 98% target that was
> due to be
> announced during the first week of Jan and the measuring week has been
> shifted to the last
> week.
> Did anyone see the Trevor Mcdonald thing. Our CEO was forced to play the
> party line and did
> very badly, but I note that the programme did not pick up several leads from
> patients where
> they said that the departments were full.
> The film crew when they came round had a definite motive: to show that we
> were
> intentionally doing stupid things to achieve the targets. Most places, us
> included, don't
> actively prevent ambulances unloading to achieve targets, we do it because we
> have nowhere
> to unload them. Why don't we if the ESC has worked?
> Is it just us being bad or has it gone ****'s up everywhere?
>
>
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