'Patients in hospital corridors has become the new NHS normal - action is needed now'

'Seven successful 10 nurses accidental they present attraction regular successful the astir unsuitable places – not conscionable corridors but besides successful cupboards, car parks, ablution rooms and adjacent toilets - Florence Nightingale would weep'

Patients languishing successful infirmary corridors should beryllium the exception, but it is present the norm successful today’s crumbling NHS.

Seven successful 10 nurses accidental they present attraction regular successful the astir unsuitable places – not conscionable corridors but besides successful cupboards, car parks, ablution rooms and adjacent toilets. Conditions which would person made Florence Nightingale weep.

It puts lifesavers specified arsenic cardiac monitors and oxygen retired of reach, makes CPR harder to transportation out, increases the information of corruption and leads to worse objective outcomes.

Lives are undoubtedly being mislaid arsenic exhausted aesculapian unit are incapable to adjacent prioritise the priorities. No wonderment truthful galore are suffering burnout. We visited Epsom Hospital successful Surrey which has devised a strategy to astir halve the mean waiting clip successful ambulances.

While that enables paramedics to get retired to 999 calls faster, it means patients are caput to toed successful A&E and repeatedly shunted into immoderate abstraction disposable arsenic much ambulances unload. The NHS present faces an endless rhythm of excessively galore patients for excessively fewer beds, a ellipse hospitals cannot quadrate without cardinal reform. Health Secretary Wes Streeting is struggling to undo 14 years of Tory NHS neglect. But we fearfulness helium is drafting his measurement for occurrence excessively narrowly.

Delivering 40,000 other regular infirmary appointments a week is welcome. But A&E departments besides request urgent intensive care. And determination is simply a interest that solving 1 occupation volition beryllium astatine the disbursal of the other. That would beryllium unacceptable.

Action is needed present to prosecute other exigency unit and velocity up infirmary discharges to marque much beds available... earlier the A&E situation becomes a full-blown catastrophe.

Forces champ

Armed forces unit tin articulation a commercialized national but not instrumentality concern enactment arsenic that would jeopardise the defence of the realm. That means their quality to amended moving conditions, oregon get redress for unfairness and injustice, is limited. Which is wherefore they request their ain autarkic champion.

Parliament volition this week ballot for an Armed Forces Commissioner to clasp the MoD and subject chiefs to account. Corrie prima Antony Cotton is himself a champion for work families, and his main beef is astir the atrocious authorities of their housing.

Our brave servicemen and women springiness their each for their country. The Commissioner indispensable guarantee their state meets each their needs.

It’s Brollywood

The devastating Los Angeles fires mean Hollywood indispensable look to Britain for movie making. We person the talent, the studios and the expertise to instrumentality up the slack wrought by the demolition connected Tinseltown.

Hooray for Brollywood!