HSJ reported this week that there’s been a sharp rise in young people attending A&E due to restricted out of hours access to care – and parents won’t be happy if they find themselves waiting in line behind patients such as this one, reported by the BBC on Wednesday.
A&E departments can no doubt regale at length stories of truly unbelievable cases arriving at their doors. But they would be hard pressed to cite an example that less necessitated “emergency” attention than this.
This government is fond of declaring it is committed to “three shifts” in health and care policy: hospital to community, analogue to prevention, and treatment to prevention.
NHS England is to have a new chair, albeit the current incumbent Richards Meddings has agreed to stick around until March in line with the government’s tactic of getting the previous administration to ‘own’ a very difficult winter.
The new government will need to resolve three tensions in its mission to fix the broken NHS, writes Dave West.
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