We need to shine a light on the slow starvation of the NHS: the lack of beds, staff and social care is putting services at riskAt NHS hospitals across the country, when a patient has a cardiac arrest or other major medical emergency, we dial “2222” to summon the emergency team. Today we find the NHS itself is in a state of emergency – and my call here for an A&E general strike is the “2222” alert our health system desperately needs.We don’t have enough beds in the NHS – in England alone we have lost nearly 17,000 since 2010. In fact in the last 45 years NHS beds have declined by 60%; there were 350,000 nationwide before Margaret Thatcher, about 127,000 as of last year. Conservative policy decisions have destroyed our bed capacity. Continue reading…
Via: As a junior doctor in A&E I’m calling on all my colleagues in Britain to go on strike | Andrew Meyerson
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