The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service is investigating whether a delay in reaching eight people contributed to their deaths in recent weeks
Some patients are spending hours in ambulances parked outside hospitals because emergency departments are so busyThe Northern Ireland Ambulance Service is investigating whether a delayed response contributed to the deaths of eight people in recent weeks.At this stage four of the deaths are being treated as serious adverse incidents.
Some patients have been waiting up to nine hours in an ambulance as they await admission to hospital.Demand for emergency care services is outweighing capacity, say health officials "It remains vital that services are used responsibly and that hospital discharge processes are followed when people are deemed well enough to leave," it said.It comes as an emergency department nurse said he would be worried if any of his loved ones had to seek treatment there as staff continued to be overwhelmed.
"I would be extremely worried to the point where I would probably want to be with them every step of the way," said Mr McKenna, a member of the Royal College of Nursing's emergency nurse network. Mr McKenna said medical staff were "now looking after people in corridors" and that some people were being "nursed head to toe, top to tail, side by side, crammed into spaces".
Linda Robinson said staff retention in the social care sector was a real problem and the rates of pay were "appalling".new measures aimed at freeing up beds fasterOn 19 December, a 48-hour time limit was introduced to discharge patients who were deemed medically fit to leave hospital.Retaining staff in the social care sector is a big problem, says Age NI
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