This evening in Manchester a creaking system limps on with NHS staff under immense pressure, and no sign of things improving.
READ MORE:100 ambulances were left waiting outside hospitals with 600 patients stranded without help last night “The reality is, due to the understaffed, underpaid and overworked conditions and the inability to retain staff due to stagnated wages over the last 12 years, lives are already at risk, people are already dying unnecessarily. Every day,” said the paramedic, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Patients cannot go home unless they have the right support in place to keep them safe. But if there’s not enough social care staff, a sector which is understaffed by hundreds of thousands nationally, medics cannot send them away. "We need to keep our phone lines free. So please, only call us back if you no longer need our help or if your own condition has gotten significantly worse."
"As of today, the trust’s 111 service is still experiencing a significant number of calls, currently 300 calls waiting, while over 300 patients wait for an available ambulance and over 40 emergency vehicles are experiencing substantial handover wait times with patients at several regional hospitals. Greater Manchester’s politicians The M.E.N. reached out to a number of Greater Manchester politicians - both Conservative and Labour. The crippled ambulance service was branded as ‘shocking’, ‘terrifying’ and a sign that our health system is ‘creaking like never before’.
“Labour will launch the biggest expansion of medical training in history, giving the NHS the staff it needs to reach patients on time again, paid for by abolishing non-doms.” “Across Manchester - social, primary and acute services are working together like never before to try and offset these pressures but as we enter into the most difficult winter in living memory we’re running out of options.
He said: "The government doesn't manage the NHS, the NHS is managed by the people within the NHS. Government ministers don't go in there and run it. Speaking anonymously, paramedics said patients are already unsafe after 'years' of ambulance services being underfunded and understaffed.
AngelaRayner Pay the right rate of pay. Then ask them if their shift pattern suits them instead of management breaking shifts that work. 1 weekend in 4 is enough for any person to work. Bottom line is, pay the right money and have the right amount of bodies to do the job.
AngelaRayner Thank the unions
AngelaRayner It’s shocking that England forces the Tories on everyone else.