William Harvey Hospital in Kent sorry for using cafe as A&E ward
Getty imagesA hospital boss apologized after an emergency service in Kent used the use of his coffee as a makeshift room.
The staff of William Harvey hospital in Ashford decided to project the building’s coffee on Tuesday to create a space to treat patients.
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust said that this decision was due to “important demand”.
Trust CEO, Tracey Fletcher, said: “We know that it is unacceptable and we are really sorry for patients who have been taken care of in this way.”
A “small number” of patients have been taken care of in the coffee until emergency patients can be moved to other districts of the hospital, the trust said.
Ashford’s Labor MP for Ashford Sojan Joseph said that it was “not acceptable” to use corridors to take care of patients, but said that the staff worked “incredibly hard in very difficult circumstances caused by a decade and a half of cuts”.
He said: “This is something I saw there during my nurse time. However, the senior management in East Kent hospitals must do more to intensify and improve standards at all levels of care.”
Ken Rodgers, president of Counten for Health in East Kent, said: “This type of patient experience will never end unless there are serious investments in eastern Kent instead of sticking plaster remedies.”
Active care at East Kent “will eventually collapse” without intervention, he added.
He said he wrote Wes Street to health secretary, inviting him to visit hospitals in the region and call for additional investment.
The Ministry of Health and Social Coins has been approached for a comment.
Ms. Fletcher said that it was “sometimes necessary” to treat patients in the corridors despite the efforts of the staff, but that the use of coffee, reported by Kent Online for the first time, will not be allowed to reproduce “.
Confidence was Classified 101 out of 134 in a League League performance that NHS England published earlier this month.
