Senior Falkirk doctor says hospital staff facing 'a perfect storm of pressures'
dailyrecord.co.ukProblems with patients being discharged from Forth Valley Royal Hospital without proper follow-up notes is just one sign of the incredible pressure the NHS is now under, a senior doctor has said.
Speaking at a meeting of Falkirk 's Integrated Joint Board (IJB), Andrew Murray, Forth Valley NHS's medical director, said he was in no doubt that the experience for many patients was not what it should be.
But he defended the quality of care and the NHS staff who, he said, are "trying to do the absolute best they can every day to care for the people that come and see them". Read more: Falkirk GP's need more help to reduce 'overwhelming' workload Mr Murray said: "We have pressure in our unscheduled care that we have never experienced before.
I have been doing this job for 35 years and I have never seen these pressures."What does that actually mean? It means we have treatment rooms that were never meant to have a patient staying in them overnight - every single treatment room now has a patient."We've got extra beds in four-bedded bays - fifth patients have to go into those bays.
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