- Conference
- 2022 Health Care Service Group Conference
- Date
- 8 December 2021
- Decision
- Carried
Conference notes that across the UK, NHS Hospital and Ambulance staff have been performing under incredible pressures due to the Pandemic and that over-crowded wards prevents emergency departments from moving patients’ forwards.
This over-crowding also prevents NHS Ambulance crews from bringing their patients into the hospitals; instead, the crews remain outside with their often critically ill patients being denied the health care they deserve.
Previous governments decided to sell-off District Hospitals and Cottage Hospitals, claiming the money raised would go towards paying for “Care in the Community”; but it hasn’t. And it will not.
Not unless we hold them to task.
Conference instructs the Health Service Group Executive to raise the issue with the NHS Hospitals and NHS Ambulance Services, and to campaign for the return of District and Cottage Hospitals, where patients may undergo and recover from elective surgery.
This will enable NHS Accident and Emergency Hospitals and NHS Ambulance Services to cope with emergency admissions and to provide that good level of emergency medical care which Aneurin Beavan introduced in 1948.