In The Press

Ashwati commented on the systematic problems facing the NHS and the chronic lack of hospital beds in England’s A&E departments. The issue of having an aging population who are increasingly entering hospital with more complex deeds, combined with a lack of resources means that England now have fewer beds per capital than China, Estonia and Turkey. This has meant that hospitals are failing to see patients within the four hour target set out by the NHS, which can result in patients being put at serious risk. Ashwati comments “As people are becoming more informed there has been a decrease in unnecessary A&E visits, therefore it is arguably more concerning that hospitals are still failing to meet the four-hour rule. This demonstrates that the problem does not lie in people wrongly using A&E services, but in fact in a serious lack of resources in an increasingly stretched NHS”