{"id":21890,"date":"2023-01-06T19:18:40","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T19:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/01\/06\/i-drove-patient-to-hospital-myself-says-shropshire-gp\/"},"modified":"2023-01-06T19:18:40","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T19:18:40","slug":"i-drove-patient-to-hospital-myself-says-shropshire-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=21890","title":{"rendered":"I drove patient to hospital myself, says Shropshire GP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">A GP said she had to take a patient to casualty in her &#8220;little Fiat 500&#8221; when an ambulance did not come.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Dr Charlotte Hart, based at Radbrook Green Surgery in Shrewsbury, added the festive period was the busiest she had experienced in a 20-year GP career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">She described a peak in patients on 28 December as &#8220;horrendous&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Dr Hart said of the lift she gave a few weeks ago that the &#8220;ambulance hadn&#8217;t come because they were backed up at the hospital&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">West Midlands Ambulance Service said it was working hard to prevent delays, but depended on hospitals admitting patients quickly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-shropshire-64181074?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] A GP said she had to take a patient to casualty in her &#8220;little Fiat 500&#8221; when an ambulance did not come. Dr Charlotte Hart, based at Radbrook Green &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}