Inside our hospital, we’re making compromises at every turn | Anonymous

Hard-pressed staff are doing their best during the latest NHS crisis, writes a London hospital consultantA&E waiting areas full, wards and beds full, corridors full; people are queuing, ambulances queuing. We can all see and feel it.It’s unhelpful to hear remarks about the NHS being broken when we are all working so hard to ensure that it doesn’t pack up, but it leaves me and my colleagues questioning why we are in this situation. Chronic underfunding? Poor planning? Is there wor