Speaking to BBC Essex, Mr Hulme said: “Some aspects of the reports are very disappointing.<\/p>\n
“We’ve had some major challenges in the system, finding mental health beds and those long waits for people with mental health conditions, and clearly A&E is not the best place for them to wait. <\/p>\n
“I’m not saying we don’t have challenges; every A&E department up and down the country is facing unprecedented levels of activity.<\/p>\n
“We need to make sure that all of our staff have been trained appropriately to give the best care they possibly can under the circumstances.”<\/p>\n
He continued: “Whilst the report is obviously disappointing, we’ve provided additional training to all of our staff in terms of looking after people with mental health conditions.<\/p>\n
“The issue with corridor care is that absolutely nobody wants to be cared for in a corridor, but it is a decision that we’ve made as a system to release the ambulances to get to the most urgent cases in our community – we will look after patients in a corridor.”<\/p>\n
Mr Hulme added that corridor care “is the best of a bad situation where there aren’t enough acute beds in Colchester Hospital”.<\/p>\n
He said: “Despite the growth of the city, we have been given no additional funds for the extra beds”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking to BBC Essex, Mr Hulme said: “Some aspects of the reports are very disappointing. “We’ve had some…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-200623","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-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}