07-03-2018, 18:11
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Re: Crisis in the NHS
NHS intensive care units sending patients elsewhere due to lack of beds.
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Patients whose lives are at risk are being turned away from their local hospitals because of a lack of intensive care beds, doctors who work in those units have revealed.
Four in five intensive care units (ICUs) are having to send patients to other hospitals as a result of chronic bed and staff shortages.
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Six in 10 (62%) ICUs cannot function normally because they are so short of nurses, according to a survey of ICU consultants by the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (FICM), their professional body, which has shared its findings with the Guardian.
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https://www.theguardian.com/society/...tage-hospitals
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