The incident last week (see previous posting) does not appear to have been an isolated case. There was also a crowding crisis in February, as recently reported in the Epsom Guardian:

Patients were put at "serious clinical risk" when they were forced to stay in the day case unit at Epsom General Hospital instead of waiting for treatment in accident and emergency, according to official documents.

Desperate staff asked patients to leave A&E and go to the day unit or another room in order to hit Government A&E waiting time targets.

Among the patients was one described as having "copious diarrhoea" and another with an infected wound.

Posted by James Bartholomew • Indexed in NHS

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