{"id":1098,"date":"2023-01-04T11:47:42","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T11:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/if-the-effects-of-the-new-year-pressure-on-the-nhs-stretch-into-february-hospitals-may-have-to-cancel-elective-care-says-dauks-dr-dolin-bhagawati-in-i-news\/"},"modified":"2023-01-04T11:47:42","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T11:47:42","slug":"if-the-effects-of-the-new-year-pressure-on-the-nhs-stretch-into-february-hospitals-may-have-to-cancel-elective-care-says-dauks-dr-dolin-bhagawati-in-i-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/if-the-effects-of-the-new-year-pressure-on-the-nhs-stretch-into-february-hospitals-may-have-to-cancel-elective-care-says-dauks-dr-dolin-bhagawati-in-i-news\/","title":{"rendered":"If the effects of the new year pressure on the NHS stretch into February, hospitals may have to cancel elective care, says DAUK’s Dr Dolin Bhagawati in i News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“Dr Dolin Bhagawati from Doctor\u2019s Association UK, a grassroots campaigning group, told i<\/strong> that if the effects of the new year surge stretch into February, hospitals may have to cancel elective care, which could result in more emergencies further down the line for patients whose treatment has been delayed.\n\n\u201cAlready atrocious\u201d ambulance wait times <\/a>could grow even greater, he said.\n\nDr Bhagawati said that the crisis in acute care means patients will be sicker for longer and suffer worse health outcomes as a result.\n\nHe said: \u201cIf these patients are waiting longer for ambulances, longer in A&E for their diagnosis, they will wait longer for their treatment, they will breach timing guidelines to treat certain conditions and they will have a worse outcome.\n\n\u201cThey won\u2019t necessarily pass away but they will be in hospital longer, they will be more disabled, and that will add to a disease burden and it will be a worse outcome for the patient.\u201d\n\nDescribing the conditions doctors are working under<\/a>, he said: \u201cThere are departments in this country where doctors and nurses have cleared cupboards out so they can see patients in a private area rather than the corridor.\u201d\n\nHe referenced an anonymous account of a GMC-accredited doctor who \u2013 over the past week \u2013 said he has examined abdomens in a cupboard with no couch and had to get a colleague to hold up sheets around patients because there were no dividers due to the number of patients being treated.” \n\nDr Bhagawati from the Doctors\u2019 Association feared that patient care could be impacted for the next decade as the medical profession has been \u201cfirefighting\u201d the mounting crisis, <\/a>rather than devoting time to pushing cutting-edge research.\n\nHe said: \u201cUnfortunately, there is a certain amount of resource and energy that any human being can direct towards any activity. At the moment, the medical profession as a whole is dealing with emergencies, so the amount of time and effort that is devoted to pushing cutting-edge research is reduced as a result.\n\n\u201cThe shame of it is that allowing us to perform the research would benefit patients so much more over the next decade. And because we\u2019ve been failed on the frontline, it\u2019s storing up all these problems for the future.\u201d\n\nRead the full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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