Rutherglen kids are being positioned in danger from ongoing issues with A&E departments in Glasgow, an MSP has claimed.
Final week Glasgow’s Royal Hospital for Kids appealed to oldsters to not use its' A & E division except in emergency or life-threatening conditions, following every week the place attendance hit the very best degree seen in over seven years.
Attendance was 25 per cent greater than the yr’s common, resulting in a drop within the variety of folks seen inside the 4 hour goal time.
That left greater than 200 kids having to attend greater than 4 hours earlier than being seen.
NHS bosses have suggested dad and mom to make use of different companies together with native pharmacies, GPs, NHS24, NHS Inform and 111 the place doable to scale back the variety of kids presenting on the hospital.
Labour MSP Pam Duncan-Glancy has now slammed the present scenario.
Ms Duncan-Glancy, an inventory MSP for Glasgow, feels that Rutherglen sufferers who use Glasgow hospitals somewhat than Lanarkshire ones are being let down.
She instructed Lanarkshire Dwell : "A&E departments throughout the nation are in disaster, leaving NHS workers and sufferers dealing with extremely difficult circumstances, with little reassurance that issues will enhance.
"The mismanagement of this disaster has meant hardworking workers are being pushed to breaking level, they're demoralised. Hospitals are overwhelmed and now sufferers are being instructed to search for different choices – of which there are fewer by the day.
“I’m gravely involved that interesting to folks to keep away from A&E except in an emergency may result in a few of my constituents in Rutherglen not getting the therapy and care that they want, placing lives in danger. "
A&E ready instances have turn into a political flash level in current months, as companies wrestle to deal with backlogs from the coronavirus pandemic and with various medical workers leaving the career.
Well being secretary Humza Yousaf lately acknowledged: "Delayed discharge continues to be the one largest issue driving up A&E waits.
"We're striving to make sure folks depart hospital at once and obtain the suitable care in the suitable setting, making certain important hospital beds are there for many who want them most. All of us have a component to play in decreasing stress on companies this winter and I'd urge folks to solely attend A&E if their situation is an emergency.
“Our £600m winter plan which can see us recruit 1000 new NHS workers, together with as much as 750 frontline nurses from abroad."
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