Less than a third of one percent of ‘UK’ doctors and not even one in Scotland has said they’ve ‘been forced to provide care in the likes of corridors, chairs and waiting rooms’ yet ‘4 in 5’ elsewhere in the UK ‘have?’

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/public-safety-and-emergencies/health-and-safety-alerts/almost-four-in-five-doctors-forced-to-provide-corridor-care-in-past-month/ar-AA1zMZWj?ocid=BingNewsSerp&fbclid=IwY2xjawIr4Q5leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHY76XNng2Tk54mzZJp-u8W0LIm7mfr2IVVhJXp5qM0gGASjZSJvwo7Y58g_aem_pglYAquA7TSEkzI7wDZrzw
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By Professor John Robertson OBA, former Faculty Research Ethics Chair, UWS 

Thanks to Jim Draper for alerting me to this.

In the Independent today:

Almost four in five NHS doctors have been forced to provide care in the likes of corridors, chairs and waiting rooms in the past month, according to a poll. Medics told the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) the issue is impacting patient safety, privacy and dignity, with one describing corridor care as a “travesty”.

The snapshot survey of 961 medics across the UK found 78% had provided care in a temporary environment in the past month. Of the 889 doctors who gave further details on where care was given, some 45% said corridors, while 27% said it was delivered in additional beds or chairs in patient bays.

Some 13% said they had given care in wards without a dedicated bed space, while 9% had cared for patients in waiting rooms. A further 4.5% said they had used spaces “not designed for patient care” such as bathrooms.1

There were 346 000 doctors in the UK in 2021.2

So, a self-selecting sample of 0.28%. Useful, Doc?

In 2017, the RCP got 2 101 responses for a similar issue3, twice as many as this most recent one, so it seems they’re not that fussed by this one.

Neither the word Scotland nor the word Scottish appears anywhere in today’s survey.4

Sources:

  1. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/public-safety-and-emergencies/health-and-safety-alerts/almost-four-in-five-doctors-forced-to-provide-corridor-care-in-past-month/ar-AA1zMZWj?ocid=BingNewsSerp&fbclid=IwY2xjawIr4Q5leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHY76XNng2Tk54mzZJp-u8W0LIm7mfr2IVVhJXp5qM0gGASjZSJvwo7Y58g_aem_pglYAquA7TSEkzI7wDZrzw
  2. https://www.statista.com/statistics/318867/numbers-of-medical-practitioners-in-the-uk/
  3. https://www.bmj.com/content/356/bmj.j1313#:~:text=The%20Royal%20College%20of%20Physicians%20has%20published%20a,low%20staff%20morale%2C%20and%20risks%20to%20patient%20safety.
  4. https://www.rcp.ac.uk/policy-and-campaigns/policy-documents/a-snapshot-of-uk-doctors-delivering-care-in-a-temporary-environment/#:~:text=The%20Royal%20College%20of%20Physicians%20%28RCP%29%20has%20published,the%20RCP%20carried%20out%20a%20member%20snapshot%20survey.
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