A hospital chief apologized after an emergency room in Kent had used its caf\u00e9 as a provisional community. The A&E employees in the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford decided to coordinate the building’s caf\u00e9 to create space for the treatment of patients. The NHS Foundation Trust of the East Kent Hospitals University said that the step was due to “considerable demand”.<\/p>\n
The Managing Director of Trust, said: “We know that this is unacceptable, and we are very sorry for patients who have been looked after in this way.” A “small number” of patients was looked after in the caf\u00e9 until emergency patients could be redirected to other hospitals to Kent. <\/p>\n
Labor MP said it was “not acceptable” to use corridors for the care of patients, but the employees had “incredibly hard under very difficult circumstances caused by one and a half decades”. However, he said that the management in the hospitals in East Kent “has to help improve the standards across all care levels”.<\/p>\n
Ken Rogers, Chairman of Health in East Kent, said: “This type of patient experience will never end unless there will be serious investments in East Kent”. The acute care in East Kent will finally “collapse” without intervention, he added. He said he wrote to the health secretary and invited him to visit the region’s hospitals and request further investments.<\/p>\n
A spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs said that the incident was “unacceptable”, and the government expected the hospital to “take urgent measures to tackle this”. They said the government “worked at speed” to improve emergency care for patients. The hospital’s Managing Director said that it was “sometimes necessary” to treat patients in corridors despite the efforts of the staff, but this use of the caf\u00e9 “Will not happen again”. The trust was ranked 101 of 134 in a league of the Trusts performance that NHS England published in the early this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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