Mary Wilson
Well-known member
1 hour ago
Doctors treated patients in ambulances outside Antrim Area Hospital due to the hospital operating beyond capacity.
At 17:00 GMT on Tuesday, 17 ambulances were queued outside.
... Northern Trust executive Ms Magowan said: "This has never happened in Antrim hospital before in my memory, never.
"We got to a situation last night that we had so many people waiting in ED to get into beds that we simply had no room left.
... Pat Cullen from the Royal College of Nursing told the BBC's Evening Extra programme that nurses were exhausted from working "excessive hours".
She said hospital nurses were treating patients in the back of ambulances and along corridors as well as on the wards and in the emergency departments, while the district nurses were trying to cope with "60% vacancies" in their workforce.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-55316063
Doctors treated patients in ambulances outside Antrim Area Hospital due to the hospital operating beyond capacity.
At 17:00 GMT on Tuesday, 17 ambulances were queued outside.
... Northern Trust executive Ms Magowan said: "This has never happened in Antrim hospital before in my memory, never.
"We got to a situation last night that we had so many people waiting in ED to get into beds that we simply had no room left.
... Pat Cullen from the Royal College of Nursing told the BBC's Evening Extra programme that nurses were exhausted from working "excessive hours".
She said hospital nurses were treating patients in the back of ambulances and along corridors as well as on the wards and in the emergency departments, while the district nurses were trying to cope with "60% vacancies" in their workforce.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-55316063