Successive conservative governments have cut funding for the universal health care system once seen as a gold standard.
, and nurses can also expect an average of $12,000 a year in overtime pay. That’s not far from double what the U.K. pays its nurses.to take them to overstretched Accident and Emergency Rooms that no longer have the capacity to promptly admit and process new patients. Even critically ill patients, for whom every minute can be a matter of life or death, often wait hours for help to arrive:
the average wait time for ambulance crews to reach heart attack victims is now nearing two hours in some parts of the country. And once the ambulance does pick up a patient and drive them to hospital, they frequently then have to idle at hospital entrances for hours, waiting for a bed to open up so that they can unload their patients.
In large part, hospital beds are at a premium because thousands of patients who are ready to be discharged into the community can’t be sent home because supportive services have been slashed to the bone by recent governments, and so there are no facilities and staff available outside of hospital settings to care for released-but-still-healing patients, especially those who are elderly and have an array of overlapping needs.
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