From Wales Online yesterday:
Wales’ biggest hospital has triggered the highest alert because of a “significant and sustained adverse demand” on services. Cardiff and Vale University Health Board said there were particular problems within in the Emergency Unit at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff.
On Tuesday (November 7) a ‘Business Continuity Incident’ was issued. Each of Wales’ health boards has five levels of escalation which determine how pressured its services are. More details are here. A Business Continuity Incident is the highest level 5 and is also known as a black alert.
A statement from the hospital said the alert was as the result of “winter operational pressures, coupled with coupled with limited bed availability”. The statement added that is “attributed to lengthy patient discharges, the Health Board is currently experiencing unprecedented ambulance delays.”
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/wales-biggest-hospital-issues-black-28060558
Is the Welsh Health Secretary Eluned Morgan aware that any buck stops with her as it would in Scotland? Nope. No mention at all of her.
There was a critical incident in Nottingham University Hospitals last week. There have been 7 in the last year in NHS England units. The buck doesn’t seem to stop with the Health Secretary there either.
On October 16, the Royal College of Emergency Measures exposed massive undercounting of A&E patients with the result that when they were added, only 50% were being seen in 4 hours. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67056279
In the same period, from January to June, the Scottish figure for full emergency departments (ED) was between 67% and 69% treated within 4 hours. https://www.publichealthscotland.scot/data-and-intelligence/ae-activity/#section-3-2
NHS Scotland’s performance was thus around 36% better.
Imagine the reaction in Scotland had this happened here
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Sorry John O/T but we should know this we really need to get shot of this shower.
Jo Coburn: When will energy bills come down if I vote Tory?
Andrea Leadsom(Tory MP): “Within the next 10 years”
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Long link but I follow this WP blog, Eng NHS..worth a wee look at what’s going on with the ENG/NHS..
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I assume you follow Lailah Peel on X (Twitter). She’s a junior doctor (ex dentist), some kind of BMA rep, and seems to be the Scotsman’s go-to for ED-bad stories aimed at the Scottish Government.
She’s in the Scotsman today saying –
It’s so bad there would be no point in declaring a ‘code black’ incident;
The Scottish Government needs to fix this urgently.
Strangely I see no reference to the Welsh Government in Wales Online, no quotes from the BMA, and certainly nothing from opposition parties.
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