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Alarming report on hospital admissions
SIR - Your report, June 19, that the RHCH was running at 94 per cent occupancy throughout last winter (max recommended 85 per cent) alarms me as a retired ENT surgeon.
At that level, it must be impossible to segregate emergency admissions from elective waiting list admissions.
Elective admissions can be screened for infection; emergencies can't. No wonder cross-infection is an ongoing problem.
And the management's answer is to "flex up" and increase the occupancy still further next winter. I just hope that the dedicated staff on the factory floor will cope.
Tim Guerrier FRCS,
retired ENT surgeon,
Andover Road,
Winchester.
3:52pm Wednesday 25th June 2008
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