A gloomy NHS boss today declared that the ‘don’t get drunk’ diktat given because of strikes by nurses and ambulance drivers this week should become permanent
A gloomy NHS boss today declared that the ‘don’t get drunk’ diktat given because of strikes by nurses and ambulance drivers this week should become permanent.
Matthew Taylor, в этом ресурсе head of the NHS Confederation and former chief adviser on political strategy for Tony Blair, has said it is ‘risky’ to drink heavily this Christmas amid fears that the NHS could be overwhelmed.
Asked about official advice not to get drunk because walkouts by NHS staff caused severe disruption to services this week, Mr Taylor suggested that it should never be revoked.
He told the BBC: ‘Yes, that is a message we should always have…not to indulge in behaviours that are bad for their health and are risky. It is important that the public use the NHS in the best way they can.’
Hospitals face a grim Christmas and could be overwhelmed amid fears people will flood in to A&E today after delaying treatment because of the ambulance strikes yesterday and nurses walking out 24 hours earlier.
Saffron Cordery, interim chief executive of NHS Providers, said hospitals were braced for a ‘surge in demand for emergency treatment’ as a knock-on effect of the ambulance and nursing strikes.She told Times Radio there was a ‘very difficult picture’ across the health and care system, with social care ‘extremely stressed’ and a ‘deeply challenging’ situation in the NHS.
Ambulances parked outside the West Midlands Ambulance Service headquarters in Coventry, during walkouts by paramedics, ambulance technicians and call handlers in England and Wales yesterday.NHS trusts fear a bounceback today after patients delayed treatment
A 4×4 outside the Royal Sussex County Hospital yesterday as members of the public were forced to take loved ones to A&E themselves
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