{"id":68035,"date":"2025-08-15T04:11:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T04:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/68035\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T04:11:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T04:11:14","slug":"northampton-hospital-had-ae-patients-in-chairs-for-22-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/68035\/","title":{"rendered":"Northampton hospital &#8216;had A&#038;E patients in chairs for 22 hours&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The inspectors said they had observed a clinical emergency in an area where additional beds had been placed in bays. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The &#8220;space for additional staff and equipment was compromised but staff ensured this did not compromise&#8230; the treatment&#8221;, their report said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Inspectors also found there were instances where medication given to patients was not accurately recorded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leaders at the hospital did not always &#8220;work with staff when incidents happen to identify what went wrong&#8221;, the report said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Breaches of regulations were found in safety of treatment, staffing and management.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But inspectors did find leaders and staff worked closely together to deliver care and staff understood their responsibilities for safeguarding and protecting people from harm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The inspectors said they had observed a clinical emergency in an area where additional beds had been placed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-68035","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\/68035","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=68035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}