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'Septic patients held on ambulances with no air con outside hospitals' on UK's hottest days on record, say paramedics
21.07.2022 - 21:25 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
'Septic patients' were held outside hospitals on ambulances without air conditioning on the hottest days on record in the UK, according to paramedics in North West Ambulance Service (NWAS). The news comes as doctors have admitted severe bed shortages, resulting in patients waiting for hours because there is no space to safely put them.
NWAS paramedics have come forward to share stories of their experiences over the heatwave, saying that severely ill patients were kept in baking ambulances as hospitals struggled to relieve them. Ambulance handovers - where paramedics transfer care of a patient brought in via ambulance over to hospital staff - were taking up to three hours in the run up to the heatwave as hospitals have been full, says a regional paramedic.
The waiting time to actually see a doctor in Greater Manchester can vary anywhere between two and more than eight hours, one doctor told the Manchester Evening News last week. NHS staff say they are fighting to fit incoming patients on wards but cannot discharge people as the social care sector suffers chronic shortages - leaving people ‘stuck in corridors’.
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In the wake of the UK's hottest day on record, one paramedic told the M.E.N.: "It's incredibly busy, there were times over the last couple of days when crews were being held on ambulances with no air conditioning outside hospitals with patients who are septic!
"There were people posting on social media with thermometers in the back of ambulances and the numbers were bl***y high!"
Another paramedic, speaking on condition of anonymity, warned last week that the ambulance service would continue to face the
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