The Isle of Wight NHS Trust has declared a critical incident in response to sustained pressure on its services, meaning it will only treat people with life-threatening conditions and injuries at its emergency department.
High levels of demand and difficulties in discharging people into social care means that St Mary’s Hospital is close to capacity.
The Trust has declared a critical incident because it allows it to take additional steps to maintain safe services for the people who need them.
The Emergency Department (ED) remains full and there is very limited space to treat emergency patients. As a result, the hospital is only able to treat people with life-threatening conditions and injuries, so anyone who arrives at ED without a life-threatening condition or injury will be redirected to alternative services that can help.
Steve Parker, Medical Director, said:
“Our immediate priority is to ensure we can care for the most seriously ill patients, and we are focusing on discharging safely as many patients as possible.
“We ask that families and loved ones support us with this and collect patients as soon as they are ready to be discharged.”
The public can help by ensuring they are seeking help from the most appropriate health services and only attending A&E for life-threatening emergencies. If you are unwell, visit NHS 111 online for 24/7 advice about the most appropriate care for your needs
I got an idea why not build thousands of new homes and bring people over from the mainland?
Love this
It’s holiday goers dumb ass.
What it’s holiday goers that move into new builds? Think your the dumb ass
Better still, lets allow the third world know for having huge amounts of offspring even when they are NOT paid to have them, so even more when they are, to come here as well.
Well going to happen as folk can’t get to see a GP .
Large excess of home deaths being hushed up presently as the covid only NHS we had for so long now comes home to haunt us.
I thought it was only my family who can’t get to see our GP.
So what are we actually getting for our NI and for that matter our Council Tax???
If you were paying a company for a service that was far below what you would expect for your money you would be entitled to refuse to pay until you get what you would expect for your money!
You could always pay privately, then you would have exactly what you want and when you want it. Fed up listening watching hearing moaning about how awful it is. Move to America where you pay for absolutely everything in insurance no payment no treatment.
YOU are paying for the third world to come, and give birth and be paid for all the children they then have.
Hence no money left for those of us who have worked all our lives here as our parents did to make a health service for US not every freeloader who chooses to come here, illegal or not.
it will only treat people with life-threatening conditions and injuries at its emergency department.
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surely they weren’t treating those with non life threatening conditions or injuries at the emergency department before- after all, if it isn’t life threatening or a serious injury – then it isn’t an emergency anyway and should be dealt with elsewhere.
too many people rushing into a and e with a broken fingernail or similar pathetic reasons.
The council are responsible for this situation with their continued obsession of building new houses when there is no increase in healthcare.
Blame it on “bedblockers” though, as it is a very easy smokescreen and bound to divide opinion and get one generation blaming the other.
Why does a “bedblocker” cause the closing of A&E? If you are walking wounded from one of the islands myriad of cars on their roof accidents and you need to have injuries treated, why would you be turned away? You don’t need a bed, just patching up.
If the wards can’t discharge patients because there is no care available in the community then A&E can’t move patients they have stabilised to the wards.
If A&E can’t move patients to the wards then there is no room for new patients who come in by ambulance.
If A&E can’t accept new patients who arrive by ambulance then the Ambulance sits outside and is unavailable for further calls.
If the ambulance is unavailable because it can’t transfer the patient it has on board into A&E then you won’t get an ambulance when you call 999.
There. Not too hard to understand, was it?
OK Brainiac, let me spell it out in a nice easy question for you.
What has any of your scenarios have to do with turning casualties away from A&E that may need assistance for breaks, cuts etc and do not need beds or ambulance?
Very well said
No – it isn’t hard to understand, when you look at the political history behind this catastrophe. But it shouldn’t have happened. And would not have, if the NHS (et al) hadn’t been starved of public money all these years. Grrr.
Because for some, once triaged in A&E you get sent to an appropriate ward, be it AAU, oncology, etc. If those wards are full you get stuck in A&E in a corridor. Happened to me… no big deal but for some, it’s probably very distressing.
Fully understand that scenario but my question was how does bed blocking close A&E?
Can people with non-threatening life conditions suspend their NI contributions since they’re unable to use the service?
When will this council stop building more and more crap houses, and decide that the island needs another hospital, that is why there is ALWAYS critical incidents being announced. If bungling Bob got his finger out of his sausage he could actually see what is going on, not just jumping on the latest bandwagon, and trying to make it his own idea. But then of course he won’t do that. The NHS was never on the high priority list for the tories. They are more concerned in privatising it all.
We clapped for them, we understood their need to make stupid tik tok videos, we’ve put them on a pedestal and supported their need for payrises, which they’ve happily taken from our wage packets.
The NHS has become a sacred cow.
A sacred cow that has no compunction about farting in our faces.
You nearly killed a dear friend with a shoddy and long awaited operation, you certainly changed his life, that’s for sure.
I’m done with you NHS, I have no faith, or love for you. Get stuffed, I and many others are fed up with your excuses and blaming patients for managerial issues.
It’s not the fault of the nurses etc., who do a great job but management above them. I firmly believe that behind the scenes the NHS is slowly and deliberately being run down and privatisation will take its place.
Not just managerial issues. The reason we are seeing so many problems in the NHS is a decade of Tory mismanagement, underfunding and cuts to social care.
All part of the master plan to privatise the NHS I’m sure…
Wouldn’t and couldn’t have said it better myself.
The staff don’t deserve the barrage of abuse about the service,it’s not there fault. They do a damn good job under stressful circumstances, many go home and cry, as they went into the job because they care. The words, KIND and THANK YOU seem to have been lost in most peoples vocabulary.
As an ex staff nurse.you have hit the nail on the head .so to spk …thank goodness I’ve.retired….
To many overners without infrastructure to cope with influx.
Again us islanders suffer!
Pass me the binoculars, trying to spot the lesser stethoscoped GP.
I can’t even spot one with my binoculars lol. Can someone explain what GP’s are doing nowadays now that they are not available to see patients, where are they hiding?
Loads of visitors clogging up our only hospital, how they going to manage when all these houses are built….
Well you can’t see a Doctor.
You can’t see a Dentist.
You will just have to get on with it if your sick, in pain, or just injured.
What a debarcal….
I had to have a blood test this week at Carisbrooke Surgery…IT WAS EMPTY, not another person waiting either before or after I had been seen.
The receptionist was not on the phone and saw one person asking for something in the 20 minutes I was there yet try to phone them and you will not get through as THEY ARE SOOOOO BUSY NOT.
This all started with Covid and now its the norm.
I blame the doctors that are still getting paid big money for doing nothing
Why do we pay such high salaries to so many ‘managers’ who simply cannot manage??
Why are bed blockers not charged for their stay when they are able to leave the hospital?
No care homes to take them, or no care package in place
No carer’s is the fact they need to pay a decent wage then the problem would be sorted
Yes they are ready to leave hospital ..but where is the support in the community to help these.patients. I’m a retired.staff nurse thank goodness .worked in NHS for.24 yrs hope one of your family never end up in this situation .why pay they have probably paid there due ….get real ….
thank the government for forcing jab.many care service staff left then and dont blame them.freedom of choice and all that.cut managers pay and put it into more staff
I don’t know why people are voting your actual fact based diagnosis of the problem , what you have said is truth , and those that are blocking beds in the 3 wards full.. Are refusing to move to another place as its to far for there relatives to visit. So why aren’t these so called relatives not putting up their family and looking out for them. Plain selfishness .
Wheredo you get this information from about bed blocking ????I don’t know any patients that want to stay in hospital .and may be they have no relatives .or the relatives are elderly themselves .so please don’t call them PLAIN SELFISHNESS .every case is different …..there is a problem with help in the community …People who are discharge need to go to a safe environment otherwise they will have to go back in hospital again …..same same why do I know this !!!!! I’m a retred nhs staff nurse of 27 yrs !!
shows how gullable the red thumbers are on here as what iv said is true lol
do your reserch…not on bbc1 or sky news!
Can we rename it St Fair
Because of the way treated me a few years ago when I went in with a collapsing lung, I now go directly to Southampton Hospital, the islands hospital is of no use to me. It’s quicker to get a boat over to the mainland than being left on a trolley for eight hours then having to go to the mainland for treatment anyway.
not sure why the NHS is getting the blame. it is mainly the social care sector as there is a shortage of care places and crucially shortage of care staff. it comes from decades of under-funding primarily under Conservative government, and paying peanut wages to carers. the camel’s back is now broken, people won’t work for peanuts anymore.
can’t see that the IoW council has an effective solution, so it’s only going to get worse.
At last some one that knows what they are talking about..from an ex 27 yrs.nhs.retired staff nurse .
A total disgrace really what’s happening to are NHS on the island doctors won’t c you ,now the hospital can’t hope there’s major incidents over the weekend. This country is in a terrible state really where are all my taxes and money going
Tried to collect my wife back in December, took over 4 hours to discharge her, they don’t seem to move very quickly
Exactly I have heard this many times yet they get called bed blockers maybe it’s the NHS causing the bed blocking
We talk about bedblockers like it’s their fault? It’s not, it’s our pathetic social services and the lack of placements for those who can’t return home without help isn’t it. There have been times when elderly people were discharged on their own in the pj’s without any care of who or how they we’re getting home at all which is just as shocking!
The system has to change end of story! Get more help outside of the hospital so the people they’ve treated ( and thankfully survived!) can get help to return home again. It’s the grey areas that need cleaning up, and yes it’s toppers in A&E with tourists and people relocating here too.
Nothing to do with the monkey pox patients in a ward there forcing a virtual lockdown, then? Nobody wants to talk about that, but some staff (enough to make a significant impact) are refusing to work. Covid was one thing, but monkey pox? Fair play to them, I say. Cue a van from IWCC and its Tourist Board paramilitary wing outside my house…
Yes you’ve just got to agree your pathetic and headless people have to go to the erectile disfunction department instead of AE some accountants stupid idea again when will they learn they need a larger hospital its pathetic