BBC Scotland is headlining today with:
NHS whistleblowers warn of ‘unsafe’ A&E staff shortages.
A group of senior doctors has accused NHS Grampian of ignoring their safety concerns about emergency departments. They told BBC Scotland News they were speaking out because they feel they cannot deliver a safe level of care. The medics said staff shortages meant Grampian’s two A&Es have no senior registrars on shift to make key decisions about patients for the majority of weekend night shifts.
and claiming:
There have been avoidable deaths and at other times there are too long delays getting to patients who may be suffering from a serious condition like stroke or sepsis
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-66580741
As always, the whistle-blowers, though senior staff, are not named.
Also missing evidence:
First, from the chart above we can see that the two Grampian hospitals, highlighted in pale blue are well within the average mortality range. Had there been serious problems there, we’d see them move above the orange upper control limit.
Second, on A&E waiting times, from the most recent monthly data (June 2023) for full emergency departments (ED) the Scottish average was 69% treated within 4 hours and for NHS Grampian it was better at 71.6%. Aberdeen Royal Infirmary is worse at only 49.1% but even this does not suggest avoidable deaths as the triage system detects those at risk of dying very quickly.
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Yet note the justification for the hyperbolic nonsense which follows – “…two A&Es have no senior registrars on shift to make key decisions about patients for the majority of weekend night shifts”.
So perhaps one or even two night shifts a week IF a key decision is needed on a patient by a senior medic, but whom Grampian can’t hire as there is “…a national shortage of doctors at the appropriate level of training”.
Any opportunity to re-hash previous BBC Scotland assertions is enough to justify the wages I guess…
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The legacy of COVID and Brexit. Healthcare staff left. The increased pay structure will help matters. Increase staff in Scotland.
Unionist Health Boards. Grampian refused to fund primary care. Drug Alcohol. It had to be paid for privately. Causing early death. During Covid the Health Board (managers) refused to let healthcare staff (Drs) go out to attend to patients in the waiting ambulances. In an emergency people died. COVID restrictions put in place to save lives. Misguided (unionist) Health Board instructions. Or were more lives saved by the restrictions.
MUP and changes in addiction behaviour. More proper, total abstinence rehabs (£250million+} will help decrease week-end patient numbers.
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Have they informed the relatives of those they claim
(“There have been avoidable deaths and at other times there are too long delays getting to patients who may be suffering from a serious condition like stroke or sepsis”)
before rushing to the unionist media for their “10 minutes of fame”.
And are they willing to repeat in court under oath their assertion that “the death of X was preventable with additional resources which “Y” specifically withheld in full knowledge of the out come”
NO!
I thought not, so this is merely Bovine Excreta for your grannies, pals, second cousin’s hairdresser twice removed, from the faceless, un-named source. Which may only exist in the mind (if they posses one) of the individual who constructed this tale of woah and misery. Aimed at Scotland in general and specifically anyone who has lost a loved one that was in the care of those two hospitals in the last year.
It is my contention that the writer(s) and publishers may well have opened themselves up to compensation claims for ‘pain and suffering’, ‘undue mental anguish’ at the very least.
I have no wish to increase the hurt the relatives and friends of the departed have or are suffering one iota.
Consider the sooner a court demands the identity of the sources under pain of contempt. And the sources, writers, and publishers are made to defend the hurt they inflict on the living with their unsubstantiated claims that X could still be with you. The sooner this heartless inflicting of anguish and hurt will be brought to an end.
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Well , just be thankful that BBCScorcheland hasn’t got its teeth into the Shrewsbury Trust or Nottingham Trust deaths with hundreds of babies/mothers dead due to failures of care .
Or is that whitabootery ?
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Maybe we should be running ads in the english media asking if any of their staff would like to move up here, with our lack of strikes, higher pay levels & lower cost of living?
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Probably one person has spoken to the Herald journalist and has said yes loads of us think this , Herald journalists are well known already for their lack of evidence and substantiation , yawn , no news here just the usual English trope.
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I’m afraid you’re comparing apples and pears here. The medics are complaining about a situation they say goes back to 2021 in A&E and is still current. Your statistics are for all deaths within 30 days of admission to all departments in hospitals and end in March this year. The avoidable deaths they say have happened would be encompassed within the statistics you cite. You do not address their concern about staff shortages and their implications. Your post is so misleading you might want to consider removing it.
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