will be appalled by what they see. Beds filled with patients line the emergency
unit’s corridors in scenes likened to a “war zone” by worried relatives.
These scenes are a damning
illustration of the crisis facing the Midway Hospitals Trust. And the pressure
isn’t easing, with winter set to bite and almost 1,200 patients last month
enduring delays of more than half a day for a bed - up from an average of three
just five years ago.
But how have things got so bad
so quickly, and what is being done to ease the strain on a system at breaking
point?
We could have sent some
investigative reporters over to the hospital to talk to the managers, hospital staff
and to local GPs, but all of our unpaid interns have gone back to
university. So we looked at GBNews archives
on Google for the answer. And what we found quite clearly shows that the
current crisis in the NHS is entirely the fault of the new Labo*r government.
This graph shows that since Labo*r
came to power in July 2024, NHS waiting lists are at the highest levels ever seen.
Newspaper headlines
include ‘My Sick Son Waited Two Years In A Hard Chair’, ‘Doctors Prioritise
Asylum Seekers Over UK Nationals’, “How dare Whinging Lazy Overpaid NHS
Managers Complain About Collapsing Concrete In Tory-Built Low-Budget 80’s Hospitals?”
and “Hypocritical Tories Turn On Covid Healthcare Heroes When They Ask For A
Pay Rise” (
This damning indictment of Labo*r’s Wes Streeting and his healthcare policies provides some indication of the struggles endured recently by the trust, which runs
, Midway’s main hospital.
This bleak picture of the crisis
engulfing Midway’s emergency departments is supported by monthly statistics
published by the NHS.
All trusts are required to
record how many people are attending their A&Es, how long they’re waiting
to be seen and, if they need to stay in hospital, how long it is before they’re
given a bed.
Since the start of this year, an
average of 1,250 people a month in East Kent
have waited more than 12 hours to be admitted. That’s almost 40 patients a day.
Among them is great-grandmother
Mrs Elsie Dreadful, who went to Midway
Hospital with a bad
headache.
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| Sid and Elsie Dreadful: "Disgraceful..." |
Her husband
Sid spoke to the
MORON
from her side on Friday morning - almost 48 hours after she had arrived at the
hospital.
“She’s been left on a bed next
to a desk in the waiting area of the A&E assessment area,” he said.
“All the bays are full and they
don’t have a bed on a ward. The corridors are also lined with beds filled with
patients - it’s like a war-zone, like something you’d see in a third-world
country."
“It’s disgraceful. Her headache
was really bad, and all the nurses did was give her some paracetamol. Her
headache did get better though, so we went home…”
Many patients enduring long
delays, including Mrs. Dreadful, are given treatment while they wait - a
practice known as “corridor care” and branded “dehumanising” by leading
doctors.
“It’s so degrading to be treated
in front of others with no privacy, especially someone my mum’s age,” he said. “There’s
no dignity at all. It’s heartbreaking to see,” said Sid.
One of the reasons most cited
for causing the long waits is ‘bed-blocking’ - where people well enough to be
discharged from hospital can’t be for various reasons.
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| Another stock image of patients in hospital corridor |
Across Midway’s four hospital
trusts in October, 52 people a day were still on wards despite no longer needing
inpatient care.
Of these, more than 60% were
waiting for a long-term care package to be put in place so they could return
home, such as daily visits to help with dressing and feeding. Others could not
be discharged until a suitable care home was found for them.
The knock-on impact is a backlog
of patients needing to be admitted, but with no ward space free to accommodate
them.
With Midway Borough’s Labo*r
Council responsible for the region’s social care, there can be no doubt that they
should be taking the blame for the crisis facing our hospitals.
Cllr Dan Hapless, the
authority’s cabinet member for adult social care and public health, accepts it will
be blamed for everything, despite the legacy of the previous 14 years of Tory cost-cutting
and neglect.
“Midway is the most challenged
region, generally speaking, because we don't have enough quality care providers
with the capacity to take on an increasingly elderly population with complex
health and care needs.”
“The number one reason for that
is that we don't have enough skilled workers able to provide that care. The
last government axed the training programmes and froze pay so that people won’t
or can’t get into the profession”.
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“And the old standby of
recruiting cheap workers from abroad has been
blown away by Brexit. Visas and
their associated costs and bureaucracy means that most migrant healthcare
workers simply prefer to go elsewhere. It’s less hassle and they can earn more
in the EU.”
“And all the anti-migrant
sentiment being spouted by UK
politicians and their chums in the right-wing media has created a hostile
environment that not only discourages overseas staff from coming to the UK,
but drives away the ones we have….”
We didn’t like those answers, so
we stopped talking to leftie councillor Dan and went for blaming old people
instead.
The older a patient, the more
likely they are to be affected by multiple conditions and the longer it takes
for them to recover.
Midway is particularly impacted
by this as the three districts with the highest average age in the county are
all in the geographical area covered by the trust.
Elderly people are often more
frail and less mobile, which means that a prolonged stay in a hospital bed -
rather than moving around their home as normal - can affect their muscles and
their long-term ability to walk or do everyday tasks.
This means they can develop more
complex care needs by the time they are ready to leave hospital, meaning plans
have to be put in place before they are discharged.
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| Lavinina Matron; "Get the Jab" |
In the winter, things like Covid
and Flu also affect the elderly disproportionately.
The MORON spoke with the trust’s chief nursing
and midwifery officer, Lavinia Matron.
“I can’t emphasise enough the
importance of the over-65s getting their flu and Covid vaccinations,” said Ms.
Matron. “It greatly reduces the number
of people coming to hospital with severe symptoms.”
Nevertheless, flu and Covid play
a big part in the increase in hospital waits during the winter. One such victim
was Bessie Nartsie.
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| Bessie Nartsie: "Bloody Ke*r St*rmer..." |
“I was in a corridor for a whole
day when I got the Covid,” she said. “And all those forren doctors kept askin’
me was, ‘Have you had the Covid vaccination?”
“I said to ‘em, ‘Not bloody
likely’ I said. That jab has killed millions. That’s wot the Daily
Mail said anyway. So it must be true…” Bessie continued.
“Bloody forren doctors. Why
can’t we have English ones? Bloody Labo*r and bloody Ke*r St*rmer, lettin’ all
these forreners over here in small boats to steal our jobs…
Have patient numbers in Midway
increased? Yes, and quite significantly.
Tory housing plans meant an
extra 25,000 homes were built in the area in the past 15 years, but with no
expansion in healthcare provision. Neither Midway’s Labo*r council or the Labo*r
government have done anything about that in the past year since being elected .
Does the East
Kent trust need more staff?
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| Dr. Tinkle: "Infamy..." |
Dr. Kenneth Tinkle, the chairman of
the Concern for Health in Over-stretched Medical Practices (CHOMP) has spent
years at loggerheads with NHS bosses and is calling for more funding to be
provided to the trust.
“I keep telling them that unless the NHS can transform
the services in Midway and have more staff, they're trying to do too many
things for too many patients at the same time,” he said.
“The reason it's never got any
better is because they cannot transform or do the services until they get some
investment in Midway. It is actually quite as simple as that.”
"That simple message has nevertheless gained me a certain amount of infamy amongst local senior NHS officials. Infamy, infamy - they've all got it in for me..."
While more beds on wards would
help, the trust believes increasing capacity outside of hospitals so people can
be treated at home or in the community is as important as having the right
number of beds and staff for patients needing acute care.
It says all NHS and social care
partners are working together to support patients with complex needs so they
can be admitted and discharged at the right time.
The winter months are also traditionally
a time of additional pressure for hospitals, with more patients needing to be
admitted with illnesses such as Covid and flu.
The trust is urging people to
only turn up at its A&E departments in an emergency, and to contact NHS 111
online or on the phone to find alternative services for non-urgent medical
concerns.
Dr. Tinkle told the MORON that he has serious
concerns about what lies ahead in the next few months.
“I know it's probably wrong to
say it, but you think hospital services are going to collapse because there's
got to be a point when they've just got too many people there and they can't
deal with them anymore,” he said.
“When this winter comes now, I
think it's going to be probably the worst pressure we've had on the A&E in East Kent since this time last year. And the year before
that. And…”
Over in the real world,
the perennial trope on overburdened hospitals scores click-bait
gold with the regular comments trolls…
Comments:
Please note that we do not moderate comments. However, we may edit or
delete them, or manipulate the voting on them in order to reflect our editorial
policy.
Neil Barse wrote:
Another Labo*r kick in the teeth for women pensioners.
BBC News - Fury as women hit by pension age rise denied payouts
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czr36842nd6o
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Tornado Watcher replied:
Nice try on the distraction front, Neil. But this is an article about the dire
state of our hospitals which, despite the spins it tries to put on things, is
clearly yet another outcome of Tory austerity.
It’s not about women pensioners.
Who, incidentally, were stitched up by pension changes made by John Major’s
Tory government. But hey, everything is always Labo*r’s fault, isn’t it?
👍+32
Neil Barse replied:
Typical lies and whataboutery from a bitter and twisted leftist Labo*r loser. I
think you far-left socialists must be mentally ill to constantly come out with
the lies and whataboutery the way you do. And what about Labo*r’s plans to abolish old-age pensions altogether, eh? Eh? That’s a plan that I’m sure you
woke, hate-filled far-left St*rmer worshippers would approve of.
👎-124
Tornado Watcher replied:
So what plans are they, then, Neil? Are they the ones that exist solely in your
head, like every other piece of whataboutery and gas-lighting you come out with
whenever you post here?
👍+65
Neil Barse replied:
Once again, Tornado Watcher fails to answer the question. Instead he resorts to
puerile insults and whataboutery, as ever. In doing so, Tornado Watcher
confesses the truth about himself before slinking away to stew in his own
UK-hating demented leftist bile. A bitter lonely insidious individual who's
mental instability is getting worse by the day, due to the fact they fail to
annoy anyone with their constant sea-lioning and self-contradictory posting.
Completely expected every time Tornado Watcher posts on here.
👎-135
Gonads wrote:
The Tories cut, cut and cut again over their 14 years of mismanagement...so
hardly any surprises that Labo*r haven't managed to fix that in a few months.
This is why farmers are now asked to pay tax (though only 50% of normal people)
and other non-ideal taxes are needed...and the Tory voters moan (until they
need a service).
Having recently walked through A&E at Midway Hospital,
I can vouch for people in corridors, the stench of human faeces and general
poor acceptability for human dignity. This is not the fault of those frontline
doctors and nurses...even though they get the hassle...but wholly down to Tory
cuts.
👍+38
SuperSmallDick replied:
NHS funding rose under the Conservatives, even more so under covid. It's now at
a record high in absolute terms as well as percentage of GDP.
What are these 'cuts' that you're talking about?
👎-36
Gonads replied:
They reduced annual increases in NHS expenditure from an average 3.5% to a
below-inflation level of 1.5%. That’s a cut. Except if you are a Tory of course.
👍+38
SuperSmallDick replied:
Well they were just putting money aside for if a Labo*r government got in, ‘cos
they knew those useless lefties would open the floodgates for millions of
illegal immigrants to come into the country and need putting up in luxury
hotels just like what has happened under useless St*rmer.
👎-29
Phil TheMentallyIll
wrote:
The crisis in our hospitals is entirely the fault of Ke*r St*rmer and
Chancellor R*chel Re*ves. The removal of the universal Winter Fuel Payment, the
imposition of inheritance tax on farmland and Ke*r St*rmer’s freebie spectacles
are all directly responsible for the complete collapse of the NHS and the
deaths of thousands of people every day. All those who voted Labo*r at the last
election should hang their heads in shame.
👎-34
Gonads replied:
People go on about it all being Labo*r's fault, but it was the Tories who chose
austerity for ordinary people as a way to pay-off the wealthy so they didn't
lose their fortunes when their get-rich-quick ponzi schemes inevitably hit the
rocks.
And then of course we had their brilliant Brexit, which has decimated
overseas recruitment of medical staff.
👍+43
Chad Grindr replied
The NHS is not underfunded.
It's the most mismanaged and inefficient organisation in the UK.
Anyone involved in supplying the NHS will all say the same thing. Their
procurement departments have no desire to obtain the best purchases as
"It's not my money"
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Gonads replied:
Sorry Chad, that simply isn’t true. My wife is a manager for a Midway Hospital
Trust. In 2013, the Tories fired lots of NHS managers, then had to rehire them
when it became obvious that front-line staff simply couldn’t do their day job
as well as run hospitals. Then in 2019, they did exactly the same thing again.
The mismanagement and inefficiency you refer to resided entirely with the Tory
central government of the times.
I know you Tories don’t like facts that don’t fit with your world view, but
here’s an IoG report that sums the whole Tory NHS shit-show up quite nicely.
https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/fixing-public-services-Labo*r-government/nhs
👍+29
Chad Grindr replied
Do you honestly expect anyone to believe a woke, leftist independent review by
the Institute for Government, in favour of the unbiased editorials of the Daily
Telegraph? No wonder you shouty lefties are so misinformed.
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Aunt Nartsie wrote:
Everyone knows that privatisation is the answer to inefficient nationalised
services. REFORM PLC UK
has the right idea. Sell the NHS off to Niglet’s USA chums. We’ll get much better
value for money by handing it to huge American health-care insurers than we
will by letting our taxes pay for our lazy woke NHS managers and greedy doctors
and nurses who are always out on strike.
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Tornado Watcher replied:
The facts are that the US
actually has the highest per capita spend on health - but by far the worst
outcomes for patients as a whole.
The UK
has maintained high value in terms of care provided against one of the lowest
per-capita spends on healthcare among OECD countries. This metric is worsening,
but highlights the value we benefit from through our collective NHS healthcare
system. An increase in funding results in an exponential increase in quality of
care relative to privatised health systems.
The Blair government from 1996 to 2010 proved that.
The Tories dismantled those gains with ‘austerity.
Privatisation has been a disaster on the railways, buses, water companies and
so on, hasn't it? But of course, it's bound to work on our NHS...
👍+89
Neil Barse replied:
Tornado Watcher believes old people are to blame for the hospital crisis and
thinks they should all be killed. It's nothing to do with anyone else, purely
the oldies.
Here's another fact, Grey Mondeo Man has been on holiday today or mysteriously
absent from his beloved Labo*r supporting debates and the 'midnight red thumb
fairies' that vote down our brilliant right-wing observations are nowhere to be
seen. How strange, must be coincidence!
👎-98
Aunt Nartsie wrote:
Neil it is obvious that these woke lefties have more than one log in and use
other 'names' in an attempt to undermine our incisive and factual comments. Why
else would our comments get down-voted rather than receive hundreds of “green
thumbs” as usual?
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Yu Rong replied:
Very true Aunt N. Devious lot those lefties.
👎-99
Neil Barse replied:
Exactly Aunt Nartsie. Raise questions, speak of your concerns on certain
subjects and immediately you are accused by a few hard leftists on here as
being racist, homophobic, xenophobic, fascist, far right, etc. Purely done in
an attempt to shut you down. It's their stock attack when they know what you are
saying or questioning is correct. Everyone is allowed an opinion, but in their
hard leftist ideology, only that they agree with.
(Note: On New Year’s Eve, the MORON’s
IT bod introduced some software that blocked multiple votes on comments from
the same IP address. We don’t like the results that’s been giving, so we’ve now
disabled it. - The Editor.)
👍👍👍+234
SuperSmallDick wrote:
The reason our hospitals are full is that they have been overwhelmed by
millions of illegal immigrants coming over here in their small boats to take
advantage of our free NHS. Everyone’s taxes are going to go through the roof to
pay for it all. And yet Ke*r St*rmer scraps the Rwanda scheme because it isn’t cost
effective! Four more years of this turgid drivel, then we can vote REFORM.
👍+213
Aunt Nartsie replied:
Indeed. Charity begins at home. Not to those illegally entering the country for
no good reason.
👍+191
Pseudocreem 2
wrote:
Comrades, dear Mr. Putin says for you to vote REFORM in next elections because
all other political England
parties will introduce anti-democratic police state dictatorships unlike truly
free Russia as run by
champion of democratic freedoms dear Mr. Putin and his Russian oligarch friends
whose money is good for UK.
👍+18
