Health
A letter from a frontline nurse at Royal Bournemouth Hospital“We are in a perilous situation” – WSWS
“We saw this coming from the first wave of the pandemic and colleagues sounded the alarm by speaking out. But these warnings have fallen on deaf ears.”
I am a frontline nurse at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital, one of the two main hospitals of the recently founded University Hospitals Dorset NHS Trust (UHD). We are in a perilous situation and so are our colleagues at Poole General Hospital.
Our two hospitals have not only reached their maximum capacity but are on a knife edge because of the surge of COVID-19 patients.
We have been on level 4 Operational Pressures Escalation Alert for months. Patient safety and care has also been compromised for…
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