A Hospice Nurse’s Perspective
I had a light bulb moment last year when I realised the appalling Government strategy of lockdown is all about the NHS. Somehow the public got conned into the ‘Save our NHS’ slogan, clapping on the street. One of the few journalists courageous enough to point out that surely the NHS was meant to save us was Julia Hartley-Brewer on talkRADIO – another life saver for my mental health alongside Lockdown Sceptics. There appears to be a massive cover up going on for the dismal failings of successive governments to properly resource and structure the NHS in which I have worked as a nurse and midwife for four decades. It was shocking to hear a spokesman for the NHS say in a radio interview last December that there are 11,000 fewer beds this Winter. After months to prepare and after years when the NHS has been on its knees every Winter, was this the time to slash capacity and provision under the auspices of COVID-19 infection control measures? Clearly not. The Nightingale Hospitals were built in a great hurry and at considerable cost last year with Matt Hancock heralding them. Yet when they became really necessary to provide extra capacity to maintain all routine healthcare in the midst of a pandemic, the Government woke up to the fact that there ...
