Winter is coming: confidence in the NHS’s ability to deliver safe care this winter
More than a third of healthcare leaders involved in winter planning were not confident in the ability of local NHS to deliver safe care this winter
The NHS Confederation sent out a short survey to Accident and Emergency Board chairs, drawn largely from acute trusts and CCGs, as well as ambulance trust chief executives between November and December.
Respondents were asked how confident they were in their local NHS’s ability to deliver safe care this winter.
In total, more than a third (35 per cent) of all respondents were either not very confident (29.6 per cent) or not at all confident (5 per cent) in the ability of their local NHS to deliver safe care this winter.
Yet there is room for some optimism: 16.7per cent of respondents were somewhat confident in the ability of their local NHS to deliver safe care this winter, and 7.4 per cent were very confident.
