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health chiefs are on course for a winter meltdown after making the stark admission patient safety is ?highly likely? to be hit by a perfect storm of factors which will cause chaos.
A crippling lack of beds combined with a ?harsh? long-range weather forecast could result in the whole system falling down, it has been warned.
With an expected norovirus outbreak and a high number of delayed discharges to factor in to a system already under as much strain as this time last year, it is clear to see why health bosses are so worried.
Last year was widely perceived to have been one of the worst winters the NHS has dealt with.
http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.c...-as-sources-warn-of-winter-meltdown-1-3162850
A crippling lack of beds combined with a ?harsh? long-range weather forecast could result in the whole system falling down, it has been warned.
With an expected norovirus outbreak and a high number of delayed discharges to factor in to a system already under as much strain as this time last year, it is clear to see why health bosses are so worried.
Last year was widely perceived to have been one of the worst winters the NHS has dealt with.
http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.c...-as-sources-warn-of-winter-meltdown-1-3162850