Several healthcare facilities in the UK are facing serious issues, including bullying, safety concerns, and mistreatment of patients. The Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been criticized for encouraging staff to ignore bullying. Additionally, GP practices in Minehead, Surrey, and Swansea have experienced closures or security measures due to abusive patient behavior. Mistakes in waiting lists have led to patients waiting for surgeries for over five years, and some hospitals have been found to deliberately slow down operations. The situation has prompted urgent action calls from MPs and the NHS, with measures such as increased security measures and potential closures of A&E departments being considered.
New plans mean the potential closure of the Royal Hampshire County Hospital's A&E department in Winchester. ➡️ https://t.co/ADKSdJ0bX6 https://t.co/7OIMBrEhfT
Swansea Bay health board has been found to have treated patients unfairly due to serious mistakes with waiting lists for things like knee and hip surgery https://t.co/sZPAjS47UZ
A surgery faces losing all its GPs, leaving locals with a serious shortage of doctors https://t.co/1zX8YvCA4w
A new report has found that staff at an East Kent hospital deliberately slowed down operations. Tap below to read more: https://t.co/q0jPLp7tzG
NHS Surrey Heartlands says 21 patients have been taken off their GPs' lists because of abusive behaviour. Tap below to read more: https://t.co/3RmIvNoKdO
146 patients in Sussex get medical treatment at designated GP practices where security measures are in place to protect staff. Tap below to read more: https://t.co/c6wbIViHbF
Newcastle’s MPs have called for rapid and “remorseless” action to combat failings uncovered at the city’s hospitals https://t.co/8uH4ubVN6r
The NHS has funded £600,000 worth of CCTV, security lighting and panic buttons in GP practices in Kent and Medway to protect staff from abusive patients. Tap below to read more: https://t.co/jDWysRMiXW
Some patients have waited more than five years for surgery after mistakes by a health board meant they lost their place on the list https://t.co/qnLF3CFopw
Patients removed from waiting lists in error and made to wait five years https://t.co/0jYLLtkg51 https://t.co/NFWmgTvqGR
Swansea Bay: Patients deleted from surgery waiting lists after 'error' https://t.co/XXZjUcwBxr
A Swansea GP surgery has blacklisted seven 'aggressive' patients in one month and warned six others https://t.co/taRTBavwLC https://t.co/m8UdYFM6jM
BBC Radio Kent has discovered that more than 700 physical assaults were recorded against hospital staff in the county in a single year. Tap here for more: https://t.co/lK5M737f3R https://t.co/5TcbiR1X6y
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Newcastle hospitals boss vows urgent action after staff left 'embarrassed' by failings https://t.co/gMqU2PXr6Y https://t.co/7dC3t9WeUS
A GP surgery that closed last year was "dirty" and its patients were not safe from abuse, inspectors have said. https://t.co/qaqUzFhy7X
More than 1,700 physical assaults have been recorded on hospital staff in Kent and Sussex in a single year, the BBC has found. Tap below to read more: https://t.co/ZMFLEg2rwM
A Surrey fire station is to close for about a year while redevelopment work takes place on the site. Tap below to read more: https://t.co/aYMdTGIicl
Just when you thought this Government couldn’t sink any lower DWP could deny benefits to hundreds of thousands of disabled & ill people under new plans Seriously ill & disabled people need security & support, not sanctions & cuts https://t.co/aGzumQXZrQ
Inspectors found staff felt encouraged to "turn a blind eye" to bullying in hospitals run by the Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust https://t.co/HQaTkvXN4X
Residents near a Hampshire hospital say plans to restructure could be a "death sentence" for seriously-ill patients https://t.co/v3zfuvnd2K
Newcastle hospitals downgraded as damning report details bullying and safety risk concerns https://t.co/E5n4TB2xjk https://t.co/51joih6CXf
The only GP practice in Minehead has suddenly closed. https://t.co/cakVhpmm52