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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 Quoting [log in to unmask]: > 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? > > > ____________________________________________________________ > > This e-mail has been scanned by the StreamShield Protector antivirus system. > > Doctors.net.uk is used by over 109000 UK doctors. > > ____________________________________________________________ >