Tuesday, March 18, 2008
National Health Care - in the U.K.
This is talking about the "health care" system.
I'm thinking more like "cruel and unusual"...
I'm thinking more like "cruel and unusual"...
This practice is reported by Daniel Martin in the U.K. Daily Mail:
"Seriously ill patients are being kept in ambulances outside hospitals for hours so NHS trusts do not miss Government targets.
Thousands of people a year are having to wait outside accident and emergency departments because trusts will not let them in until they can treat them within four hours, in line with a Labour pledge.
The hold-ups mean ambulances are not available to answer fresh 999 calls. "
