{"id":251592,"date":"2026-01-22T11:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T11:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/251592\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T11:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T11:05:08","slug":"nhs-in-recovery-but-not-out-of-the-woods-says-health-secretary-wes-streeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/251592\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS in recovery but not out of the woods, says Health Secretary Wes Streeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Working in A&amp;E is tough, it&#8217;s really difficult&#8217;published at 09:53 GMT<\/p>\n<p>09:53 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-arspwv-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/49ef053c-bde2-4954-9e1e-dbaf6790d5c5.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Mark Norman<br \/>Health Correspondent, BBC South East<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Workers at a hospital are wearing uniforms and face masks while standing in a circle talking to one another.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/8e55e9ea-67d9-4d88-917a-11aac1585a1c.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hospital in Maidstone, Kent, is full of patients, the A&amp;E is also full, and other people are waiting to be admitted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It\u2019s very busy, and some patients are frustrated with the waits they are experiencing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But I am being told this is a normal day in the emergency department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust has two of the best-performing A&amp;E departments in the country, but they are not immune to the pressures and the toll it takes on staff and patients.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Sahaj Sethi, one of the A&amp;E consultants, said: \u201cIt\u2019s tough. I think it&#8217;s really difficult.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cIt&#8217;s tough not just on the medical staff but the nursing staff as well, and you&#8217;re providing care for patients in perhaps areas you&#8217;re not used to, not areas you would ideally like to be providing that treatment, and that takes its toll mentally and physically on all members of staff.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Working in A&amp;E is tough, it&#8217;s really difficult&#8217;published at 09:53 GMT 09:53 GMT Mark NormanHealth Correspondent, BBC South&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-251592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}