Overlong waiting times are 'inhuman and degrading'

A landmark inquiry into emergency health care in Northern Ireland (NI) has found individual human rights violations that amount to inhuman and degrading treatment. The inquiry team identified cases in emergency departments (EDs) where patients were made to wait unnecessarily long for pain relief, food or fluids, or were left unsupported and unable to use toilets. The findings were published at the same time as the latest government figures on waiting times for NI's major acute hospitals.

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2015

Erschienen:

2015

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:23

Enthalten in:

Emergency nurse - 23(2015), 3, Seite 8

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Blakemore, Sophie [VerfasserIn]

Links:

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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Themen:

Emergency Service, Hospital - utilization
Emergency medical care
Human rights
Medical treatment
Quality of care
State Medicine - organization & administration
Violations
Waiting period

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

OLC1960028154