A high number of people are attending the emergency department at St Mary’s Hospital today (Wednesday), leading to a warning from the Isle of Wight NHS Trust. It’s said that the majority of people attending St Mary’s do require help, with staff prioritising those who need help urgently. This is resulting in longer waits for others. At the time of publishing, the emergency department wait was at 2 hours 20 mins, with a 3-hour wait for the Urgent Treatment Centre. The Isle of Wight Ambulance Service is also said to be facing high demand today. Islanders are urged to use NHS 111 – online and on the phone – as well as local pharmacies and GP services before heading to the hospital. In a genuine emergency, always call 999. The Isle of Wight NHS Trust is also asking friends and family to ensure that loved ones are collected as soon as they are able to be discharged.
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Welcome to Tory Brittan, where privatising the NHS is their goal. Got to run it into the ground first before their mates in the private healthcare system get to take over. And believe me you do not want that. Go look what it’s like in the US. It’s insane. There are people having to cut their own limbs off because they can’t afford a doctor or the meds to fix their injury. And it’s not just the poor.
This country is massively over populated, that’s why we struggle with housing, schools, dentists, doctor appointments, ect….Those two globalised idiot parties have created this, thanks Tony Blair and thanks to the present idiots for nothing…
Vote Reform UK…or we are finished….
Vote Reform to abolish inheritance tax and scrap planning laws to line the pockets of the multimillionaire property developer Tice. All other policies are the same as those of the Tories.
This time of year we have many more visitors, and one hospital can’t cope with the numbers…
Dinghy’s are bringing thousands over every week.
Surely some of those are doctors though?
The dinghy mob don’t carry any form if identification because if they did they could be returned back to their homelands. Unfortunately some of the legal migrants who claim to be doctors have been found to have fraudulent credentials which can be purchased anywhere in the world. Its the so called patients who make unnecessary visits to the hospitals who cause any backlog. I took a neighbour to the emergency dept on Wednesday, in the waiting room were drunks, druggies and even a young mother who had a very small splinter in a finger.
Think Qwerty King meant witch doctors!
Probably some are doctors; regular immigrants are, save a lot of money not having to train out own, and furthermore their own country suffers from lack of doctors, win, lose? Not really in long run, but what government plays for the long run, just look for quick vote winners that more often than not play to innate prejudices in their electorate..
With the help of the French and The RNLI taxi service, we are all paying the price for this….Vote Reform UK if you love your country…
And as we do we W not be voting for another Tory Party by any other name “do one and take your Tory chums and their policies with you your done!.
Yawn!!!!!!!!!
Overpopulated because of an aging population, like here on the Isle of Elderly
Don’t you mean the Isle of Gimme, every county has an aging population. If you don’t know its the generation who have worked hard all of their lives and many of us who have served our country so that people like you can have an easy life. We had to struggle under a Labour government and put up with constant strikes from Labour controlled trade unions. You are obviously too young to have a first hand experience of living under a Labour government.
And you have obviously lived with Rose Coloured Glasses on whilst The Tory’s have Bern stripping this Country of all it’s assets for their friends in private businesses or private health insurance how a Prime Minister who spends more on 3 of his immaculate White shirts than the average British family brings in for mortgage and food and utilities,has the cheek to say it’s getting better?he is as deluded as you are!.My mother 91 a war baby survived being bombed out in Shanklin,worked as a music teacher one of the first working mums amongst friends at that time always paid in for NI all her working life, still fully independent would more vote Conservative than fly to the moon now!and I bet she can remember more Prime ministers than you can?!.
Only 1, Respect to her.
But please explain why as you are insinuating, everyone is poor under a Conservative government. Yet myself and many others who have worked hard all our lives earning average wages have managed to pay off mortgages, have new cars paid by cash and still have substantial savings under a Conservative government. We still managed to struggle whilst under a Labour government with personal cut backs. So perhaps its not government’s that are the problem its the Gimme society.
Reform will never get close all bollocks ..
Ye labour going to do better are they ???????????? that bitch rayner wants to rebuild gaza and evil palastinians/hamas..
Rayner wants too bring all the gaza people into the UK, that’s what we are going to get when that lot are in power….
Was labour that sold the only hospital to be sold in the UK.
This is what 14 years of Tory cuts and mismanagement gets you.
Add that the the Island’s burgeoning elderly population (proportion of over 65s up 25% in 10 years) while adult social care is cut back (Tories again) it’s hardly surprising that St Mary’s can’t cope.
Of course, it wouldn’t have anything to do with the total closure, island wide, of all GP surgeries this afternoon for “training”….
That was probably extra training for staff to explain to patients why they don’t need to see a GP. Why not see a ‘wellbeing coach’ instead?
Really? Odd that, I could have sworn austerity was from 2010 to 2015 and it was done under a Conservative-Liberal coalition. Necessary to fix the massive deficit Labour left us. As for the NHS, it’s been broken for at least 50 years. I remember waiting in A@E for 10hrs under the last Labour government.
Tories have had more cuts than a Turkish Barber.
It’s said that the majority of people attending St Mary’s do require help,
in other words – most of them are time wasters, attention seekers and whiny pathetic individuals that need to get a back bone and sort themselves out.
I’ve broken both legs ..i’ll wait until the queue goes down before getting on the bus.
Let’s build more houses that will fix the problem
So what’s new? Don’t worry – they have a cunning plan to free up beds by sending patients home to die. Send them home to the ‘Virtual Home Ward’. Basically a box with a thermometer, blood pressure monitor and pulse oximeter which sends patients own readings by Bluetooth to St Mary’s – where nobody looks at them, and all you get is an answer phone if you try to contact them. Then nobody replies to the Answer phone message. Just sit at home and wait to die.
Why are they going to utc during the day…do they not have a gp surgery they can whatsapp?
Because you can’t get a doctors appointment for weeks. And if you’re in need of an doctor after 8.32, all the emergency on the day appointments are gone
More chance of getting past border control than that gestapo receptionist at my docs. Tells you to go to pharmasy when you need to see a doc to get antibiotics which pharmassy won’t give without prescription from doc
Pharmacy ( sigh).
Who gives a shit, doesn’t say hair dressers does it?
So was Freddie Mercury and David Bowie,
didn’t stop them performing.
Must be busy dealing with all the persons experiencing
side effects from the recent medical procedures that was given to
people.
Too late, I’m dead !
So ,what could it be that so many people require medical help,and feel so bad they have to go to hospital? Well I was in the urgent health care unit last week , and because they do the OPS on people while they wait. At least 7 people I counted that had chest pains, and none of them looked older then 60! Good old Az shot,if not? Then explain how?
Because plenty of people under 60 have heart issues. In fact, cardiac problems are far more frequent in those who had COVID than those who were vaccinated. We are seeing that the health consequences of COVID are long-lasting and awful for many.
Probably a bunch of idiot holiday-makers who think that they might have high blood pressure so they go to A & E! That does actually happen a lot.
Of course, it wouldn’t have anything to do with the total closure, island wide, of all GP surgeries this afternoon for “training”….
Surgery in Ryde was open yesterday for Covid jabs
Thought they had all been recalled ?
The damage done by the AstraZeneca ones, have resulted in a world ban
of AstraZeneca Covid jabs.
My advice to them is stick them where the Sun don’t shine.
They will want people clapping on Thursday evenings again
Clapping is cheaper than a pay rise. Just ask the junior doctors.
ITS BECAUSE…nobody is getting any treatment in the community.
GP do not look after our elderly like they used to in their own home or see people in an appropriate time frame.
The public are getting sicker and sicker at home and end up very ill calling an ambulance; WHY do you think the Hospital is overrun !!!
Build another Hospital, we used to have more than 1 Hospital.
They have an extra £350,000,000.00 from the Oven ready Brexit deal
Doris arranged to win the 2019 Election
Let’s see the money!, or was that a Tory Lie.
And who would staff it? every department in the one hospital we have is already under staffed.
Employ overseas Doctors and Nurses, better than have no
Doctors and Nurses.
I agree, but judging by the ludicrous xenophobia exhibited here, I can’t see that being popular, can you?
the reason people are heading to A&E is because they are unable to see there Doctors.
The only way you can see a Doctor nowdays is watch
Carry On Doctor
Since the Plandemic, Doctors have gone shy, personally I think
they are frightened to see their patients eye to eye being what the
vaccines have done to them.
Bit like a Dodgy Car Salesman, once he’s sold someone a dud, he don’t want
them to Rock up at his Dealership!
Look this hospital is too small now we all know it should be looking to build ..post brexit millions a new hospital..
Everyone’s throwing their toys out of the pram but would do so equally if NHS was reformed, in Europe (not talking about USA), their healthcare systems are comparable (those who can’t pay don’t pay, as if we don’t pay anyway with national insurance contributions, so it’s not free..), yet they have around twice as many doctors as us for the same cost, the system needs to change but our NHS is the holy grail, cept it’s not. If you have cancer here you.are less likely to survive than most other European countries whether you’re poor or rich, so let’s not start quoting a highly capitalistic inefficient American system,On our doorstep other countries do it better, but average Joe doesn’t even know that so still think of NHS as the bees knees.
The country thinks it needs more immigrants to help our job vacancies.
If we stopped paying out stupid money to Brits who are capable of working to do the jobs we all used to do.
They have made a rod for their own back by making it even easier with mental health, depression anxiety and obesity to have payments made for every known ailment.
We had enough houses 15 years ago but for mass immigration and single mum’s, wanting their God given right to be given a house!
This Council, sorry Masons, think that receiving money to house people from other council areas is a good idea. How shallow and greedy they are.
Try saying no and get the hospital up to a standard where we feel safe going up there.
Get hospital manager to do his job!
The Hospital Manager may be a woman, most crap organisations are run by
Women.
Royal Mail was, look what happened to innocent Sub Postmasters
Red Funnel and John Lewis to name a few had woman bosses.
Men on top much better
Lol
Emily? I wouldn’t dare say it normally but from personal experience many times women in authority take everything so personally.. It’s been said that if men are strong in business they are described as assertive, but a woman in the same position is described as a b*tch. It’s not the same though, because in my limited experience and I may just be unlucky, everything is personal with a lot of if not all women.. don’t get mad, get even.. hence b**ch.. Apart from anything else that is not, is not, professional. Then there’s the likes of Paula Vennels obviously promoted above her ability flailing around in a sea of painful obvious abject incompetence..
Go to A&E over the weekend, see how many smackheads are in there because of deliberately self inflicted over doses, and see who will get prioprity over others. The thick as shit DWP are paying this waste of space shite to be in this state all day, but will stop a genuine sick/disabled persons payments and say they can work.
YOUR UNDERSTAFFED because…. you want all potential nursing staff to have a Degree.
You DONT need a degree to be a nurse.
People don’t want the debt incurred while getting the unnecessary degree.
Get real and train nurses on the Island like they used to and attract people who actually want to care for people.
Maybe hire enough staff and pay them properly?