Prior to the onset of Covid-19, writing in the Guardian a junior doctor working at Worcestershire Royal hospital lashed Boris Johnson over the loss of life as result of the runnning down of the NHS.  |
| By Andrew Meyerson |
The prime minister’s neglect of the NHS has resulted in too many tragedies. If he were a doctor, he would be struck off.
Dear Boris Johnson,
In medicine – unlike politics, where anything seems to go these days – we have situations called “never events”. These are instances that occur when a patient is seriously harmed in spite of all the protocols and protective measures to prevent this happening. “Never events” are such serious, manmade disasters that most clinicians involved in them will bear the burden of such tragic events for the rest of their careers. You are not fit to lecture us any more about what we need in our NHS hospitals
Like many junior doctors who have worked in overwhelmed and understaffed A&E departments, I’ve seen things happen as a result of the overstretched conditions that I believe should be classed as “never events”.
Since 2016, nearly 5,500 patients have died in England alone as a direct result of having waited too long to be admitted to hospital. To put that in perspective, that’s nearly twice the number of people killed in terror attacks in the UK since 1970. We should be outraged.
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