🔴 Extreme pressure on the NHS is likely to continue for the next three months, a senior healthcare boss has warned, with further critical incidents declared and patient care compromised
on “longer term issues of over 130,000 NHS vacancies, a decade-long lack of investment in capital and an elective backlog which continues to grow past 7 million people.”
“Health leaders have been telling us that the pressures their staff are facing are becoming unbearable. It seems likely that the next three months will be defined by further critical incidents needing to be declared and the quality of care being compromised,” Mr Taylor said in a statement. “Health leaders are working together and doing all they can, but this is only crisis management. This situation is also putting off recovery and improvement measures that had started to take effect before winter. This will have inevitable longer-term impacts, including further increasing demands on services.”
He urged the Government to sit down with unions in a bid to prevent further industrial action within the healthcare system “when services will be at its most fraught.” Nurses are
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