it was awful for the carers or families of those patients, and it was awful for our staff, as well, who were put in a position where they were delivering care and maintaining safety, but not in an environment that, frankly, they came into nursing to deliver. withjust 20 cubicles, the emergency department can see up to 300 patients a day. the recovery plan will give this trust 25 more beds. there will be more ambulances. but it is about keeping people out of hospital. the virtual wards this winter only run at a0%. for the recovery plan to work, all the elements have to come together, and there are concerns that with no extra money, this is coming out of existing budgets. but the real elephant in the room is the workforce, and how you manage a staffing crisis. this emergency department alone needs 140 more staff. what makes an emergency department tick? people, our people. they have taken to social media to recruit.
some change in the way that americans are approaching work? so, i think, fareed, if you look at that 3 million people, a lot it is older people who stopped working during covid and decided to retire earlier than normal patterns would suggest. so i think that is the largest part of it. beyond that, i think there is definitely a kind of grand reassessment going on after covid about how hard people want to work and how much they want to be part of hierarchies. you don t get to be a ceo if you don t love being in the office. and so ceo s want all of their people to come back and be working. but lots of people like their dens better than they like their cubicles, and for those people they re going to decide to work
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