‘This pressure is not what anyone wants’
Channel 4’s Health Editor Victoria Macdonald (pictured above, speaking to Ruth Green, director of nursing for emergency and acute care) has visited our A&E at Queen’s Hospital, to find out more about the pressure our staff are under.
She also spoke to our Chief Executive Matthew Trainer about our campaign to raise the £35million we need to transform our department.
Matthew (above) said:
It’s targeted at the people who make decisions about capital allocations, but it’s also there to recognise the pressures our staff are under and give our patients something to do about the circumstances they find themselves in.
Most of the complaints I get say your staff are fantastic but the environment they’re in is awful.
Victoria also spoke to nurse Laura Lekeayi Atabong who was caring for patients in the corridor.
Laura said:
My patients are being looked after medically, but the personal care aspect and the feeding is not being fully given.
Read more and watch the Channel 4 News report.
And we invited reporter Charlotte Anderson from the Romford Recorder into our department, who found seeing corridor care ‘harrowing’.
Read her first person article.
These reports follow a range of national coverage of our A&E campaign in the week it launched.