The Romford site's emergency department faces unprecedented demand, with patients often treated in cramped conditions. Chief executive Matthew Trainer identified this as the top risk for the Barking, Havering and Redbridge NHS Trust. He criticized the department's design and acknowledged factors like population growth, the lasting effects of COVID-19, and a shortage of GPs in Havering as contributors to the crisis. Additionally, there is an increase in patients arriving due to social issues, compounding the challenges faced by the hospital's emergency services.
The A&E here is probably the worst designed one I've been in. I used to work for the CQC and inspected a lot of A&Es, and the Queen's one is particularly poorly designed and particularly crowded.
Havering's got the lowest number of GPs per head of population in London, and all of the GPs we have got are seeing more patients than they ever have.
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