Almost Half UK Hospitals Not Equipped To Deal With Critical Out Of Hours Care

The British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) is hosting a meeting at Number 11, Downing Street today to raise awareness of how more than half of Britain’s hospitals are providing patients with inadequate services. A UK-wide audit shows that 60% of acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding episodes occurred out of ‘normal’ working hours yet 45% of hospitals do not provide out of hours endoscopy.

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Filed under: GastroIntestinal / Gastroentorology on June 27th, 2009