Just in case anyone thinks this is deliberate. BBC East ask if we could report on emergency departments (across the region) and the stress they are facing at the moment. Not a single one can accommodate us. Largely because they say they’re just too busy.
BREAKING: Hotel in Norwich city centre is to start taking patients from hospital because of lack of social care beds. 15 patients transferred there initially. Will be in operation for 3 months and staffed by trained carers from Abicare. Will open in next few weeks
What I’ve learnt about the situation facing the NHS today. A 🧵
This is Mervyn, 84. A clever man.
Mervyn had heart failure, ver low oxygen saturation and was struggling to breathe. It took 20 minutes for the ambulance (East of England) to pretty promptly arrive.
BREAKING: Whole Norfolk and waveney healthcare system on Opel Four critical incident including ambulance service, community services, three hospitals and social services.
This is Derek Garrett (91). His wife of 71 years, Jane, has been in the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital since May. She was first fit for discharge in June. She needs two carers four times a day. They live in a rural village in Norfolk.
Richard Bacon MP tells @BBCLookEast that “you haven’t gone and investigated it, but there are 1.5m people working in NHS” and he bets if we try hard enough we “could find some people who were letting their hair down who were working 24/7 in the NHS as well.”
1). @BBCLookEast This is the tented marquee set up outside Addenbrookes A&E. It’s there so ambulances can offload patients to the tent before they are triaged by hospital staff. Previously they could have been in the back of an ambulance for 4 hours.
BREAKING: More than 140 mental health doctors have jointly signed a letter to Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust Chair saying the substantive medical staff body “lacks confidence in the Executive Board to resolve the plight of NSFT”
Mervyn told us he thinks it’s a massive waste of money having a £200k resource standing outside a hospital providing a bed for 12 hours, although he’s grateful for the care of the staff. You can see and hear what he has to say himself here: (top story)
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BREAKING: Three students from UEA in Norwich have each been given a £10,000 fine. It’s after they held a party attended by up to 100 people on Sat night. Students supposed to be self isolating after some had symptoms. Party @ residential house on Bowthorpe road. @BBCLookEast
She said she was “picking off the families and speaking to them one by one to get them on side and isolate her”. (Speaking about a bereaved mother calling for a public inquiry after her son died after a mass of failures at a mental health unit)
🔊 Melanie Leahy, whose son was found dead at the Essex facility, is read WhatsApp messages sent by Nadine Dorries calling for a full public inquiry to be blocked
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…because another patient in greater need had just taken the bed, so bank in the ambulance. In the hospital an inflatable bucket collected rain water off the flat roof which is being held up by more than 3,000 props. (Hospital still waiting for decision on rebuild…
