Hospital corridors, storerooms, offices and gyms are being use as ‘extra care’ areas. Patients collapsing, unseen by staff, in hospital corridors, posing a serious risks of falls, infections, etc. All this was reported by the Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB) on 8th January 2006, and reported in the Guardian, the Independent and several other media outlets.
One year earlier, on 16th January 2025 a similar situation was reported by BBC News, and Sky News, which describes the situation at that time.
"Patients dying and undiscovered for hours in hospital corridors: demoralised staff are caring for as many as 40 patients in a single corridor, unable to access oxygen, cardiac monitors, suction and other lifesaving equipment. Women are miscarrying while some nurses report being unable to carry out proper CPR”.
Clearly nothing has happened to change this unacceptable situation. Wes Streeting, the health secretary, has pledged to end the practice by 2029 “though NHS staff groups are sceptical he will do so”. Perhaps this cynicism is based more on the experience of staff over the past year rather than any political (or even medical) optimism!
For decades the conventional medical establishment has complained that the problem is underfunding. Yet the annual NHS budget now exceeds £200 billion, with more funding being promised each year. In contrast, just £116 billion is spent annually on Education, £60 billion on Defence, and £34 billion on Transport.
Yet the solution to this is really quite simple.
To prevent overcrowded hospitals the NHS has to engage a medical system that can receive sick people and with effective treatment get them back home both quickly and well.
The NHS cannot continue to fund, year in, year out, a medical system that has consistently proven itself to be unable to do this, and has been largely ineffective.
Moreover, the NHS needs to engage a medical system that does not actually make patients sicker - through drug-based treatments that cause serious adverse reactions.
If we are searching for solutions it is time to recognise that the foundations of the NHS are based on pharmaceutical drugs; and that these drugs are known to make us sicker, not better. (Yes, it is true, it is in the medical literature!)
Observing the NHS
We do not need to be medical scientists, or medical practitioners, to see what is going on. We just need to observe what is happening in a health service in which demand for services regularly outstrips the ability to provide them, where patients are left on trolleys for days. There are many other things we can observe. The massive waiting lists for treatment that the NHS is failing to reduce. The difficulty getting an appointment to see a doctor. And much more. What this tells us is that there are serious medical problems that need to be addressed.
To find the reason for these medical failures we have to look at what we can observe. After 70+ years of NHS treatment (treatment largely based on pharmaceutical drugs) are we getting healthier, or sicker? And again we do not need to listen to competing arguments - we just need to observe and understand what is actually happening on the ground.
Are we more healthy now than in 1948?
We do not have to look far to see that since the inauguration of the NHS in 1948 we have become increasingly sick. We can witness it all around us, in plain sight.
Arthritis. Significantly more people have arthritis now than was the case in 1948. Conventional medicine tries to excuse itself by saying that the population has aged, and has become more obese, and cites many other environmental factors.
However, the fact is that we know that many pharmaceutical drugs have ‘arthritis’ as a “side effect”, and that in the last 70+ years these drugs have been consumed in ever-increasing quantities.
Autism. In 1948 autism was rare, if not non-existent. Conventional medicine tells us that it did, in fact, exist, but it was either ‘misdiagnosed’ or not recognised. Parents in those days must either have been extremely dim; or this is an unacceptable argument that seeks to justify the explosion of Autism, to epidemic levels, that we have witnessed over recent years.
The fact is that many pharmaceutical drugs (and vaccines) are now known to cause autism as a “side effect”, and that in the last 70+ years these drugs/vaccines have been consumed in ever-increasing quantities.
Cancer. The number of people diagnosed with cancer has also risen significantly in the decades since 1948. Conventional medicine tries to explain this away by saying the population has aged (but younger adults, children and even babies are increasingly been diagnosed with cancer); and by pointing out that improved diagnosis and screening techniques (as if people did not know that they had cancer in 1948).
Again, the fact is that many widely consumed pharmaceutical drugs have ‘cancer’ as a known “side effect”), and that the consumption of these drugs have mirrored the increase in cancer during the last 70+ years”.
Dementia. The number of dementia diagnoses has also risen significantly since 1948. It was rare in 1948, but is now believed to be affecting over half a million people in the UK (probably an underestimate). Some sources now expect dementia to double every 20 years in future. The excuse of conventional medicine is that the population was smaller in 1948 (not that much smaller); that people did not live as long then (but now younger adults, and even children, are now being diagnosed); and the condition was not properly identified in 1948 (were people really this dim?)
And again, the fact is that many pharmaceutical drugs cause known dementia symptoms, like confusion, memory loss, disorientation, et al, as a “side effect”, And these drugs have been consumed in ever-increasing quantities during the last 70+ years.
I could continue with many more chronic diseases for which the same points can be made, chronic diseases, once rare, now running at epidemic levels. We suffer from more allergy, more diabetes, more heart, lung, kidney, liver, stomach disease, more anxiety and depression - more of every known disease than we did prior to the drug-dominated NHS was inaugurated.
What we can observe will explain what is happening.
This is why the hospitals are full, this why there are so many patients some have to be left in corridors, why doctors appointments are difficult to obtain, why waiting lists are so large. There is no need for complex, technical explanations or excuses.
The drug-based medical system that has dominated the NHS for 70+ years is not making, and does not make people better; it actually makes them sicker!
We are all able to observe what has been happening to our health during the pharmaceutical drug-taking bonanza of recent years, and come to our own considered conclusions.
We do not need to rely on information coming from the NHS, from Patient Support groups, from the mainstream media, or from government.
We are all be able to observe that Pharmaceutical Medicine is not winning its ‘fight’ with disease; and it is not just losing it, it is making it worse.
We should observe that the NHS is not “under-funded”: it is actually close to bankrupting the economy; it does not need more (and more, and more) resources to spend on moe and more vaccines and drugs.
We should observe that medical charities have been arguing, (some for over a century) that “together we are defeating (this or that disease)”. Disease can be seen winning, hands down, in its fight with pharmaceutical medicine.
The mainstream media cannot continue telling us, ad nauseam, about new ‘medical breakthroughs’ that will ‘transform’ the treatment of disease. It has been doing so for decades, without effect or outcome.
