A&E care will never improve unless the Government and NHS focus on reducing “hideously high” bed occupancy rates in hospitals, the president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine has warned 🔴 PMGallagher1
– so-called ‘bed blockers’ – due to a lack of community care being available.
The figures also show that the proportion of patients seen within four hours in England’s A&Es fell to a record low of 65 per cent in December. Dr Boyle called for improvements in 111 services to prevent unnecessary A&E trips, and for hospitals to share the burden of an influx of patients – instead of leaving crowds of people in emergency departments for hours on end.
He said the new target will encourage managers and senior medics just to focus on people who can be discharged from hospital without dealing with the main problem of “exit block”, which occurs when patients in the Emergency Department requiring inpatient care are unable to gain access to appropriate hospital beds within a reasonable time frame.
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