The Isle of Wight NHS Trust has declared a Critical Incident today (Tuesday) in response to significant pressure on its hospital services.
The Trust is working with its health and care partners to take urgent action and ensure the safety of services, it says.
NHS leaders on the Island are calling on people to only come to the Emergency Department (ED) if they are experiencing a life-threatening illness or injury.
Steve Parker, Medical Director, said:
“Our Emergency Department is extremely busy, as is the rest of the hospital. Despite the very best efforts of our staff people are waiting a long time to be admitted into a bed.”
Bedblockers are a continuing problem for St Mary’s Hospital, with difficulties in discharging people who no longer need medical assistance into care homes and similar establishments.
Health bosses are asking members of the public to help by:
- Collecting family and friends from hospital as soon as they are ready to be discharged, to free up beds for those who need them.
- Visit NHS 111 online or call NHS 111 for heath advice, or alternatively contact your local pharmacist or GP.
- Think about the most appropriate NHS service for your needs and to only call 999 in the event of a life-threatening illness or injury.
- Stay away from our hospitals if you have COVID symptoms, or are in contact of someone who has tested positive for COVID-19.
Unfortunately St Mary’s is not fit for purpose. And the GP’s on the Island continue to be AWOL.
Perhaps the government in power are not the ones fit for purpose, as they have dramatically cut funding for the NHS and social care. The staff work tirelessly to provide the best care they can under the circumstances they are in. More and more nurses are leaving the profession because their pins are at risk. Many wards are left with unsafe staffing levels because of this. It’s not the hospitals fault, but the fact that nurses wages are a disgrace when you know the responsibitlies they are expected to take on. However, I do agree with your comment about GP’s. If normal surgeries resumed, less people would need to phone 111 who advise you to go to A&E anyway, as they cannot advise you over the phone.
No government as cut funding, more and more money disappears into the incompetent inefficient blachole.
The biggest crime was closing cottage hospitals, nice one in East Cowes for bed blockers.
Of course it’s the Government.
Anyone looking at the decline in the NHS’s performance and public satisfaction figures in last 12 years (Tory) compared to the previous 10 (Labour) can come to no other conclusion.
The fact that someone called “Mrs T” would rather blame the people at the coal face rather than the party they support isn’t really much of a surprise.
That is absolutely the case, Witch. The Liar Johnson convinced the electorate that leaving the EU would make millions more available for the NHS. It didn’t, of course.
Instead, an almost immediate effect of Brexit was to cause such alarm for their futures among the Doctors, Nurses and Health Care Professionals from EU countries, who were happy to provide the magnificent service that they did, left in huge numbers.
Then Toxic Truss avowed a lowering of priority for the Health Service which further damaged morale. Yes, the Tory government are the ones NFFP – Not Fit For Purpose.
Perhaps Seldom might like to comment? Or would that just be more BS from BS?
Agreed. But i think our council might have a solution that may help Stop building hundreds more houses. The NHS,bless them, can’t cope with the amount of people on the island as it is. Can’t they see this, shameful
Just before the same repetitive comments are made about more hospitals being needed; the problem here is funding and workforce.
The NHS is in absolute dire straights at the moment because it’s frontline workers are not paid to reflect their ever changing responsibilities – which is always increasing. Therefore record numbers of nurses, paramedics, doctors and others alike are leaving! They’ve studied for years and worked many unpaid hours, to be expected to conform to the sad state of affairs that the NHS is becoming. This is not what they came into their professions to do. They came in to care, to help, to assist, to offer compassion, to treat and to aid in recovery. This basic, essential care just cannot be given at the moment.
Where is the money coming from???please tell us!…
Well perhaps some of our lavish living Mp’s on extravagant ectra’s for barely being seen or putting in an appearance (did I mention srldon seen in name)? Could chip in oh no sorry they are investing in private care, packages and we can all sod off basically…. Conservative empathy at its finest, the NHS is ours people we need to make sure it stays that way.. Phoning 111?!they are, students bless them with a tick box and the sentence take paracetamol Ibuprofen and lots of fluid pre recorded goid job we ignored that advice for a, famyember with phemonia!….
Taxes.
That is how the NHS is funded, and has always been funded.
Though some significant savings could be made by flattening the management hierarchy as there are far too many layers of bureaucracy.
Well said.
I have many friends and relatives who work in the NHS. Doctors, nurses, midwives and HCAs. They all say the same thing. They all say that it is no longer the job they used to love, a job where the primary role is to care for people who need help. Working for the NHS on the front line is now like working on a production line.
Staff are leaving in droves, both the experienced older staff who are taking early retirement and, worryingly, newly qualified nurses and midwives who are finding that it isn’t the job they were promised (caring for people).
Spending £millions on new buildings is pointless if there aren’t people to staff them. It’s just rearranging the deckchairs on a sinking ship.
Which is so upsetting for those in need of that. Patients are being transferred to wards, despite there being no bed spaces for them – adding extra numbers to the ward, which for an already understaffed hospital is just unfair and completely unsafe! These professionals have a pin to uphold and with these current conditions, the majority of what they are expected to do by the direction of ‘those above’ breaches their code of conduct and goes against their pin! The problem lies with social care, also! There are no placements available, so for those that need it because it unsafe to reside at home – they are simply left with no choice to stay within the hospital until suitable care is arranged.
no – what actually needs to happen is all the deadbeat hypochondriacs, time wasters and those turning up at A and E for every little cut, need to be removed – then the pressure will dramatically drop
at least i now know timms, that you are one of those that hang around the hospital every five minutes burdening them with your presence, based on your comment.
i spoke with someone who was at the old beacon centre, pre covid and they said it was packed – the staff made an announcement that there would be a four hour wait to see anyone – 75% of the waiting room got up and left – clearly time wasters
nothing has changed – all they need to do is get rid of all the time wasters and the problem is solved
I don’t know about him, but my wife, daughter and son-in-law do “hang around hospitals”. My wife and son-in-law are nurses (he’s an A&E charge nurse), and my daughter is a doctor (she’s a paediatrician).
The beacon centre was a walk-in minors centre and was exactly meant for minor injuries. It no longer exists, so your comment is meaningless.
I can assure you that anyone turning up at A&E with a “little cut” that can easily be treated at home is turned away. By far the biggest pressure on A&E on the Isle of Wight are medical emergencies in the elderly. That is a fact.
What a idiot saying that bet your be the first in the line if you hurt yourself,that is what there there for can’t go to a doctor anymore there hopeless so what do you do
The staff need our support, not our criticism. Those on the frontline are used and abused and are working tirelessly to help those in need. But, perhaps a government that prioritised its health service would be a start!
A friend of mine was in hospital up North , well enough to go home …but because it was the weekend no consultant’s to authorise his discharge !!!
Then yesterday they wanted blood test’s and wound check ! He finally got discharged 2day !!!!!
This did not seem abnormal to my friend, apparently this happens all the time…
Does St Mary’s have consultant’s working weekends????
I truly don’t know……
this crap is getting very boring now.give it a rest
our hospital is not fit for purpose, poorly managed and has too few beds now anyway. dont be whining on too the public for bed blockers…its covid forced jabs way back on care staff who then left and there choice tooo say no too btw.and our lazy invisible doctors STILL WONT do the job there paid for .
disgraceful. money was promised gof our hospital…where the hell is it?
Oh dear as someone farted or sneezed again.
Shut the sh*t hole down
Employ some decent mainland staff who know what they are doing.
Let’s all clap on Thursday 8pm and make it better
Lol
It was only the other day when Barbeque Bob visited
St Mary’s, what did that achieve
**** all
It’s about time the Island had a decent MP, not one who does not his
**** from his elbow.
My dogs Vet offers better treatment, and they are never overwhelmed.
Stop all the piss heads and druggies wasting N.H.S. time.
exactly – if they focused on healing the sick and fixing people that have broken something instead of offering things like liposuction, gender reassignment and all the other non life saving surgeries, as well as pandering to junkies and alco’s then they wouldn’t have a problem in the NHS would they
Interesting that no one has the courage of their own convictions to use their proper names.
The hospital ,for what ever reason mainly funding, have continously cut bed numbers.Nurses pay has in effect been cut over the years with poultry pay rises,no wander they have left the profession those that are left risk there professionally registrations working on wards that are dangerously under staffed and resourced.
Carers in nursing and rest homes are paid poorly for the amount of work they do to make there residents experience a happy and comfortable one.
Do I need to go further?
Those in power need to take action to deal with these issues and only then we will have a service that can care for those that need this care
poultry pay ? are they paid in chickens and not money
Many of them work Bank Hours and believe me they are getting paid really well by doing so.
Just trotting out the same boring nonsense every week. If GPs would get off their lazy backsides and start actually seeing patients again people wouldn’t have to resort to going to the hospital for any illness. As for the NHS being underfunded, it gets more and more money every year. It is mismanagement, not funding, that is the problem. Too many chiefs and not enough Indians (sic). Too many “trusts” pouring all the money down the drain. It needs a total reorganization to sort it out.
Maybe standing outside clapping every Thursday made them get behind on work
Don’t forget they were busy doing Tik Tok too.
The NHS needs a massive boost in funding, along with more incentive for staff to remain and new people to want to learn. St Mary’s isn’t big enough for the Island, and the closure of the Cottage Hospitals did not help, but even if they had remained they wouldn’t have enough staff to man them. Let’s hope Rishi’s and Hunts budget on Monday will do something dramatic to help.
People blaming the doctors hospital etc. To me the blame lies directly on the IW Council see today they have approved more housing at Gunville why can’t they see more houses more people and they will need doctors dentists hospital care and we haven’t got the infrastructure to cater for more people. So stop the new builds until we have everything in place