{"id":1094,"date":"2023-01-02T20:27:41","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T20:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/current-unbearable-pressure-on-nhs-is-a-nationwide-problem-which-needs-a-nationwide-solution-says-dauks-dr-dolin-bhagawati-on-i-news\/"},"modified":"2023-01-02T20:27:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T20:27:41","slug":"current-unbearable-pressure-on-nhs-is-a-nationwide-problem-which-needs-a-nationwide-solution-says-dauks-dr-dolin-bhagawati-on-i-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/current-unbearable-pressure-on-nhs-is-a-nationwide-problem-which-needs-a-nationwide-solution-says-dauks-dr-dolin-bhagawati-on-i-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Current unbearable pressure on NHS is a nationwide problem which needs a nationwide solution, says DAUK’s Dr Dolin Bhagawati on i News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Senior medics and NHS leaders warn about ‘unbearable’ pressure on the NHS following New Year and rising cases of flu and Covid. DAUK’s Dr Dolin Bhagawati spoke to i News about the bleak situation in national healthcare. \n\n“Dr Dolin Bhagawati, from Doctors\u2019 Association UK, told i News that patients across the UK are facing such long waits in A&E that people are leaving after several hours to try and find help at another hospital miles away.\n\n\u201cPatients are experiencing such long waits in A&E they are upping and leaving to try and get help at a different hospital, often several miles away, just so they can be seen in a timely fashion. This is a nationwide problem which needs a nationwide solution as we\u2019ve reached a tipping point.\u201d\n\nWhen asked how this winter crisis compared to previous years, Dr Bhagawati said: \u201cLiterally every doctor I\u2019ve met, no matter how experiences, has said they\u2019ve never seen anything like this. We have issues with waits all the time in winter, but we don\u2019t have clear up cupboards to make the space to see patients.\n\n\u201cIn previous years we didn\u2019t have hundreds of people dying because of the waits to see someone, as the RCEM president explained. On top of that we have a collection of issues coming to the surface: long-term such as funding, lack of social care options and waiting lists, then short-term with increases in cases of Covid, flu and other respiratory viruses.\n\n\u201cWe now have long waits all over the place which is exacerbated by staff shortages meaning fewer healthcare professionals dealing with higher number of patients.\u201d\n\nRead the full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Senior medics and NHS leaders warn about ‘unbearable’ pressure on the NHS following New Year and rising cases of flu and Covid. DAUK’s Dr Dolin…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dauk-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}