Northwick Park Hospital’s new A&E can cater for more patients — each monitored in their own small rooms.
But what happens when they need to be admitted?
Health authorities have failed to realise there are still not enough beds.
I recently spent an uncomfortable 24 hours on a trolley in there while staff tried to find me a bed and ward.
A 95-year-old friend with chest pains was sent to the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead as there were no beds at Northwick Park.
Access to the A&E department is not easy either. There is no access from the main department and it is quite a distance from the bus stop, passing the car park, round the ring road. Even ambulances have problems getting in and out.
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