2. Like the frog in heated water, NHS staff have become completely used to working in a highly constrained system. We are all used to seeing five or six patients in bays designed for four. Corridor patients have been reduced but at the expense of worse conditions on the wards.
Jan 2, 2023 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
For those who don't fully understand what is up with the NHS, here is a thread for you that might help.
I'm a consultant physician working as a doctor in the NHS in Yorkshire and Wales for 32 years now. I have experienced the NHS at its best (2008) and its worst (2022).
Over at least the past 15 years, we have seen a relentless increase in demand, both in primary care and in hospital care. This has been absolutely predictable by social statisticians for decades and is based on the fact that our elderly are surviving much longer.
