Editorial - The NHS urgent and emergency care crisis: how much worse could it get?

Q3 Medicine

Acute Medicine Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI:10.52964/AMJA.0919

Tim Cooksley

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Abstract

NHS urgent and emergency care is under intolerable strain. This strain is increasingly causing harm to patients. Timely and high-quality patient care is often not being delivered due to overcrowding driven by workforce and capacity constraints. This drives low staff morale perpetuating burn out and high absence levels which currently dominate. Whilst COVID19 has accentuated and arguably expedited the crisis; the spiral of decline in urgent and emergency care has been decade long and unless urgent action is taken, we may not yet have reached its nadir.

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社论- NHS紧急和紧急护理危机:还能糟到什么程度?

国民保健制度的紧急和紧急护理承受着难以忍受的压力。这种菌株对病人的伤害越来越大。由于劳动力和能力限制造成的过度拥挤，往往无法提供及时和高质量的患者护理。这导致员工士气低落，长期倦怠和高缺勤率，目前占主导地位。虽然2019冠状病毒病加剧并可能加速了危机;紧急和紧急护理的螺旋式下降已经持续了十年之久，除非采取紧急行动，否则我们可能还没有达到最低点。

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Acute Medicine Medicine-Emergency Medicine

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