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<blockquote data-quote="br jones" data-source="post: 8199454" data-attributes="member: 90824"><p>brexit again </p><p>Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. Copying articles to share with others is a breach of <a href="https://www.ft.com" target="_blank">FT.com</a> <a href="https://help.ft.com/help/legal-privacy/terms-conditions/" target="_blank">T&Cs</a> and <a href="https://help.ft.com/help/legal-privacy/copyright/copyright-policy/" target="_blank">Copyright Policy</a>. Email <a href="mailto:licensing@ft.com">licensing@ft.com</a> to buy additional rights. Subscribers may share up to 10 or 20 articles per month using the gift article service. More information can be <a href="https://www.ft.com/tour" target="_blank">found here</a>. </p><p> <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/43ba23b5-7dc3-435d-9d6a-201dbc038451" target="_blank">https://www.ft.com/content/43ba23b5-7dc3-435d-9d6a-201dbc038451</a></p><p></p><p> Covid lays bare staffing crisis in Europe’s hospitals Chronic under-investment means workforce shortages are constraining intensive care provision An intensive care unit in Mulhouse: rising Covid-19 infections coupled with staff shortages have forced seven out of 13 French regions to trigger hospital emergency plans © Yves Herman/Reuters Share on twitter (opens new window) Share on facebook (opens new window) Share on linkedin (opens new window) Save Leila Abboud in Paris and Sarah Neville in London DECEMBER 23 2021 80 Print this page Receive free Healthcare costs updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Healthcare costs news every morning. Exhaustion and burnout. Patients at risk in understaffed hospitals. These and similar stories of woe were told by many of the roughly 6,000 nurses, doctors, and ambulance drivers who protested outside the health ministry in Paris this month. Their diagnosis was brutal. The French healthcare system has suffered chronic under-investment and mismanagement for decades, they said, and the Covid-19 pandemic had pushed it past its limits, leading to a staff retention and recruitment crisis. Waving a banner demanding “More beds! More staff!”, George Palomas, an ambulance technician from Lille, said some hospitals in his region had been forced to close emergency departments at night and weekends because of lack of staff. “Sometimes we have to drive an extra 20 or 30 kilometres to get a patient to hospital,” he said. With France in the middle of another Covid-19 surge, even before the full impact of the highly transmissible Omicron variant has made itself felt, the stress on the health system and the people who work in it is growing. The country is far from alone in facing a workforce crisis. Dr Natasha Azzopardi-Muscat, a senior World Health Organization official who works on health systems in Europe, said staff shortages were the overriding problem for hard-pressed health services. Some European countries, such as Germany and Austria, started the pandemic with more intensive care beds, relative to population, than others. According to the OECD, Germany has 28.2 hospital beds per 100,000 inhabitants and Austria 21.8 against a European average of 14.1. However, Azzopardi-Muscat said, many disparities in infrastructure had been addressed between successive infection waves. “The one that was not resolved was workforce . . . You don’t make health workers overnight,” she added. In France, rising Covid-19 infections coupled with staff shortages have forced seven out of 13 regions to trigger hospital emergency plans, allowing them to delay operations, call in private sector reinforcements and cancel staff holidays. Hospital cases have increased steadily since late November to reach about 7,000 new admissions a week, a figure that, thanks to widespread vaccination, remains lower than the 10,000 to 15,000 at the height of previous waves. But government officials have warned that the system could still be overwhelmed in the coming weeks unless Omicron proves to cause milder disease than feared. In the greater Paris hospital system about 1,000 nursing jobs remained unfilled out of a total of 18,000, forcing the closure of 13 per cent of its beds as of late November.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="br jones, post: 8199454, member: 90824"] brexit again Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. Copying articles to share with others is a breach of [URL='https://www.ft.com']FT.com[/URL] [URL='https://help.ft.com/help/legal-privacy/terms-conditions/']T&Cs[/URL] and [URL='https://help.ft.com/help/legal-privacy/copyright/copyright-policy/']Copyright Policy[/URL]. Email [EMAIL]licensing@ft.com[/EMAIL] to buy additional rights. Subscribers may share up to 10 or 20 articles per month using the gift article service. More information can be [URL='https://www.ft.com/tour']found here[/URL]. [URL]https://www.ft.com/content/43ba23b5-7dc3-435d-9d6a-201dbc038451[/URL] Covid lays bare staffing crisis in Europe’s hospitals Chronic under-investment means workforce shortages are constraining intensive care provision An intensive care unit in Mulhouse: rising Covid-19 infections coupled with staff shortages have forced seven out of 13 French regions to trigger hospital emergency plans © Yves Herman/Reuters Share on twitter (opens new window) Share on facebook (opens new window) Share on linkedin (opens new window) Save Leila Abboud in Paris and Sarah Neville in London DECEMBER 23 2021 80 Print this page Receive free Healthcare costs updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Healthcare costs news every morning. Exhaustion and burnout. Patients at risk in understaffed hospitals. These and similar stories of woe were told by many of the roughly 6,000 nurses, doctors, and ambulance drivers who protested outside the health ministry in Paris this month. Their diagnosis was brutal. The French healthcare system has suffered chronic under-investment and mismanagement for decades, they said, and the Covid-19 pandemic had pushed it past its limits, leading to a staff retention and recruitment crisis. Waving a banner demanding “More beds! More staff!”, George Palomas, an ambulance technician from Lille, said some hospitals in his region had been forced to close emergency departments at night and weekends because of lack of staff. “Sometimes we have to drive an extra 20 or 30 kilometres to get a patient to hospital,” he said. With France in the middle of another Covid-19 surge, even before the full impact of the highly transmissible Omicron variant has made itself felt, the stress on the health system and the people who work in it is growing. The country is far from alone in facing a workforce crisis. Dr Natasha Azzopardi-Muscat, a senior World Health Organization official who works on health systems in Europe, said staff shortages were the overriding problem for hard-pressed health services. Some European countries, such as Germany and Austria, started the pandemic with more intensive care beds, relative to population, than others. According to the OECD, Germany has 28.2 hospital beds per 100,000 inhabitants and Austria 21.8 against a European average of 14.1. However, Azzopardi-Muscat said, many disparities in infrastructure had been addressed between successive infection waves. “The one that was not resolved was workforce . . . You don’t make health workers overnight,” she added. In France, rising Covid-19 infections coupled with staff shortages have forced seven out of 13 regions to trigger hospital emergency plans, allowing them to delay operations, call in private sector reinforcements and cancel staff holidays. Hospital cases have increased steadily since late November to reach about 7,000 new admissions a week, a figure that, thanks to widespread vaccination, remains lower than the 10,000 to 15,000 at the height of previous waves. But government officials have warned that the system could still be overwhelmed in the coming weeks unless Omicron proves to cause milder disease than feared. In the greater Paris hospital system about 1,000 nursing jobs remained unfilled out of a total of 18,000, forcing the closure of 13 per cent of its beds as of late November. [/QUOTE]
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