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Article: Health officials admit intensive care crisis
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- Evening News - Scotland
- Article date:
- December 30, 1999
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Health officials admitted today that Lothian's hospital services
for intensive care patients are in crisis and struggling to cope.
Trust managers are in talks with Lothian Health on ways to ease
the pressures after hospitals ran out of intensive care beds this
week.
Edinburgh Royal Infirmary's 12 intensive care beds are full, and
St John's Hospital's small ICU is at double its normal capacity.
Sources at the two trusts responsible for intensive care, Lothian
University Hospitals and West Lothian Healthcare, said today that
they are not being fully funded for some of the beds.
The highest cost of running intensive care facilities is in
staffing the beds.
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