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'Quality of patient care threatened’, RCP warn
The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has written to Prime Minister Theresa May setting out their concerns about the capacity and resources needed to meet the demands on the NHS.
Signed by RCP President Professor Jane Dacre and 49 members of Council, the letter highlights that the increase in patient need is outpacing the resources available, leading to services being ‘too often paralysed by spiralling demand to transform and modernise’.
Additionally, the health leaders warn that hospitals are ‘over-full, with too few qualified staff’ and services are ‘struggling or failing to cope’, which is leading to ‘increasing reports of staff contemplating the sad decision to leave the NHS’.
Speaking to the BBC, Dacre said: "Our members tell me it is the worst it has ever been in terms of patients coming in during a 24-hour period and numbers of patients coming in when there are no beds to put them in. And there are patients within the hospital who can no longer get home because of the difficulties there are in placing people in social care.
"Our members fear that patients' lives are at risk because they can't get round to see patients who aren't in the emergency and accident department or are waiting for results to come back."
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