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Senior doctors at Glasgow hospital in care delay warning
Concerns have been raised about emergency care at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital
Senior emergency doctors at Scotland's biggest hospital have written to the healthcare watchdog to warn of harm to patients from delays to care.
The consultants also warned of uncontrollable system failure, in a letter sent to Healthcare Improvement Scotland (His) in July.
They said the situation in the emergency department at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) in Glasgow had deteriorated since their last review, which was undertaken in 2024 and published a year later.
That report found that poor relationships between managers and consultants was likely to have had a detrimental impact on patient care.
The July letter said staff were being forced to step down patients from resuscitation areas and move people into corridors to address "sustained overcapacity".
They added that there was no effective strategy to address the problems, and said evidence now clearly linked overcrowding in accident and emergency areas to higher death rates.
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A spokesperson for Health Improvement Scotland said it continued to "take the concerns raised by staff in the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Emergency Department seriously."