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A&E failures causing 600
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The National Audit Office estimates
that 450-600 lives could be saved each year if improvements were made to major trauma care in England |
Commenting on the publication of the National Audit Office’s report on major trauma care in England, South Norfolk MP Richard Bacon, a member of the Commons public accounts committee, said:
“It is appalling that up to 600 people could be dying unnecessarily
every year because of failures in the management of major trauma care.
What is truly outrageous is that these failures are not new; they were
first identified over 20 years ago. |
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“If you are critically injured in a road accident, your survival chances could very well depend on the hospital which you are taken to. “As a result of the Department of Health’s institutionalised apathy, the chances of someone with a critical injury dying in an English hospital are now 20 per cent higher than in an American hospital. “What on earth has the Department of Health been doing for the last two decades? This is precisely the sort of thing the government should have been focussing on, rather than spending billions on a pointless computer system which nobody really wants and which doesn’t work properly”.
5 February 2010 |
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