The number of people waiting to start hospital treatment has risen to 4.95 million in England alone, according to the latest NHS figures. “It’s the highest number since records began back in August 2007,” Sky News reports.
The Express and Star has more.
Data from NHS England also showed that the number of people having to wait more than a year to start hospital treatment stood at 436,127 in March.
This is the highest number for any calendar month since August 2007, when the figure was 578,682.
In March 2020, the number having to wait more than a year to start treatment was significantly lower at 3,097.
This record again highlights the disruption caused to the nation’s health by a year of lockdowns and the NHS’s focus on Covid. The number of people admitted for routine treatment in hospitals in England was up 6% in March 2021 compared with a year earlier – but for many, lockdown has already taken its toll.
The Express and Star report is worth reading in full.
Stop Press: The NHS is to receive £160 million to help tackle this backlog. The Guardian has the story.
Hospitals will use the money to buy mobile CT and MRI scanning trucks, put on extra surgery in evenings and at weekends, and look after patients at home in “virtual wards”…
NHS England has designated groups of NHS trusts working together in 12 parts of the country as “elective accelerators”. They will be given up to £20 million each if they manage to carry out 20% more planned activity – diagnostic tests, operations and outpatient appointments – by July than they did at the same point in 2019-2020, before the pandemic struck.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press 2: NHS consultants are asking for a “minimum 5% pay rise” and have produced a glossy brochure setting out their case. “After a year in which the NHS has experienced its greatest crisis, and in which consultants have been leading on the frontline since day one in the fight against COVID-19, it is time that consultants were rewarded fairly for the vital clinical leadership they bring to the NHS,” it says. No mention of the ~20% of all people hospitalised with Covid having caught the disease in hospital.
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This is inevitable
We’ll have some form of the European “Green pass” – double jabbed or negative test – to access stuff.
The only question is how much stuff.
negative test is just self-reported isn’t it?
Yes I think so – though I think you need to quote the test number or whatever so you at least need to obtain the test kits, even if you don’t use it. I don’t want to do that. I will stick to that for as long as I can. It depends what exactly I am denined access to. There’s not much that is a dealbreaker for me – I am happy to be outdoors and in private homes – but others will have different limits.
I can’t see me needing it anywhere and will resist it as much as possible. but you are probably right in that you’d need the test kit serial number when reporting negative.
given how the data changes from vaccines are amazing to they don’t really do anything, this all might be moot by xmas
Moot by xmas – goodness knows. I try not to think too much about the future. Just stay calm and think about the ways in which I personally can contribute to the fight, while feeding my body and soul and looking after my family.
good plan. I, personally, am little affected by this – but I understand how fear drives irrationality and I see it everywhere.
when ‘it’ goes, people will recover their sensibilities (I hope). if they do then ‘masks forever’ will look as stupid in hindsight as it looks now to rational people.
I have been doing the lateral flow tests to be allowed to visit my father who lives in a care home. At first the care home gave me the test to do outside before being admitted but the the past couple of weeks they said I can do the test at home before the visit. You have to type the code number under the QR code in to the NHS website and they send a text with the result. No need for any Apps. But I haven’t been able to get the website to accept the typed in code and have to scan the QR code using an iPad.
I got 2 packs of 7 tests from the local test centre I didn’t need to sign for them.
I won’t be going to any places for entertainment that require a test (though I am not in agreement with the tests at all perhaps for a care home it could be considered a reasonable thing to do?). I don’t know how they could justify implement testing before being allowed to go into a supermarket as these have been open all along without reporting any problems. It might be they leave shops and sports facilities out of the covid pass nonsense. I hope by next spring some of this madness might be over.
I hoped it would be over by last July
Curious as to how this could work for things like London theatre venues, or much visited things like Stonehenge for example. As a foreign visitor how do you sort it out? You won’t have any kind of UK App, and if the tests aren’t done within 24 hrs, and free?…. When visitors even arrive in the country how will they know if how or with what people are vaccinated (or not)?
There will be no travel for us peasants.
Here in Germany it certainly is not. Only tests performed by the official accredited test centers are accepted.
The EU ‘health pass’ includes ‘tests’ , but they have to be by authorised third parties, sef-testing is not allowed.
Thanks and thanks to rayc. So your evening out starts with a trip to a covid testing centre? Lovely!
Everything eventually. The road of travel is to ease in slowly so the gullible will not see where they lead the rest of us. We will end up with a credit system, based on a universal income. No one will own anything. No one will have salary increases for merit or be able to create their own business unless World Government approved. Every single person will be a subject of the World Government and if you do anything autonomously your credits (good behaviour income) will be taken away.
Anyone who thinks we will be free to speak, think, move around, take holidays, go to recreational venues is an absolute fool. We will be controlled. As China is. China hides the suppression extremely well. Most in the West think all the ‘Chinese’ they see working are free. Firstly they are not Chinese they are usually Vietnamese or Thailanders. Secondly Chinese students are here to learn and then take that knowledge back to improve their country. The State pays for their education. They usually go into science and engineering. That education is bought for on the backs of the working poor.
Some extremely incapable Councils are asking Brussels for money. Money for what? Services are deteriorating, but salaries go up and their pensions have to be protected. The creep of socialism is rife and the EU are insisting that money is rewarded by flying the EU flag permanently. This is the insidious drift back into Brussels control because our Governments never want to leave their chums and their perks. Our Government no longer know how to make decisions and be accountable for those decisions.
Unless we clear down this whole corrupt system and lose government completely we will not get out of this cycle of misery. We can then create something we want. Smaller, leaner, local and accountable.
Own goal.
Nah, just another small step closer to complete serfdom.
Yawn – self reported ‘negative’ test means the infected unvaccinated can mix with the infected vaccinated – LOL!
But the actual reality doesn’t matter, does it? Positive, negative, tested, untested, jabbed, unjabbed: none of that’s the point.
The point is compliance with the system, and begging for permission.
You can’t beat this game: if you play it, you lose.
So when will DS report on this nugget I wonder???
Biggest story of the day and all I hear is crickets !
Aargh! Here is the link:
https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job_list?JobSearch_q=immunisation+school&JobSearch_d=833&JobSearch_g=&JobSearch_re=_POST&JobSearch_re_0=1&JobSearch_re_1=1-_-_-&JobSearch_re_2=1-_-_–_-_-&JobSearch_Submit=Search&_tr=JobSearch&_ts=4656
“We also require all school immunisation staff to show evidence of immunity to hepatitis B, chicken pox, measles, mumps and rubella immunity prior to commencing work with us”
That sentence is from the job description and I would guess covid vaccine will be added soon. I worked for over 30 years for the NHS without having to prove any of those things, apart from Hep B I had the other 4 as a child but for young people coming into any health and social care jobs now I guess it will be a norm to prove vaccination status?
I am retired so I can keep out of the way of all this nonsense but it looks increasing like young people will be required to have all their vaccines and I’d guess covid vaccines will become one of them. And it seems wrong for it to be so as children seem to cope with covid just as they do with common colds.
I suppose it doesn’t matter that you actually can prove immunity with the traditional vaccines you mention….not the case for the Vaxx though is it? It doesn’t confer immunity and at some stage…very far from now I’m guessing….they will have to accept it.
I have insisted all a long that my 13 y/o will be vaccinated over my dead body. I can’t believe any parent would go along with this nonsense- the risk/benefit is so obviously biased towards risk that it’s laughable. Imagine asking this question 18 months ago- will you allow the government to inject an unproven substance with possible side effects up to and including death into your child to help prevent them catching something that they have a vanishingly small chance of catching anyway?
I do wonder if they will in fact be “hosting capacity crowds”. Presumably some people will be happy that they’re being “kept safe”, and although I’m not a football match-going spectator, others just won’t put up with this nonsense and watch the sport from a comfortable settee.
Plenty at Euros
Just shows how much football has turned into state circensus.
Sport England to be moved into the new Ministry of Social Credit?
It would be great to still see empty stadiums because of this decision – what a message that will send.
A club with such historic ties to the Jewish community in London should be ashamed of themselves, it wasn’t even 100 years ago that this kind of segregation, ID and card carrying, was thrust upon Europe’s Jews. Short memories, I hope this is disastrous for them.
As well as seeing their ‘heroes’ take the knee…
The only way to “deal” with vaccine passports is to boycott any business which requires it (and I really mean “requires”, rather than “enforces” – as there will be many that will bow to the pressure in hope that their customers won’t mind if the controls are lax).
A poll of users on my Scottish Premier League football club’s website posed the question, “Would the introduction of vaccine passports stop you attending **** Park next season?”
Early voting, 36 “No”….1″Yes”
A disgusting example of how much we actually do “care about each other”.
Football can fuck off.
I am sure most clubs will have no trouble filling their seats. I’m sure the same goes for a lot of other places that will be subject to similar restrictions.
Most clubs (even clubs with a capacity over 20,000) don’t fill their seats. If the MMT mob are wrong, the economy will ensure there are even more
Here we go. Once you’ve bent the knee and proved your innocence just once, anywhere, for any reason, why would you ever resist doing it again?
Football killing itself indirectly if not directly. When the injected can no longer attend matches because they are poorly or dying, what then?
Why can’t Tottenham just issue yellow badges in line with historical precedent?
Very interesting if true. Can anyone confirm this other than a twitter feed?
PFIZERLEAK: EXPOSING THE PFIZER MANUFACTURING AND SUPPLY AGREEMENT.
https://twitter.com/eh_den/status/1419653002818990085
All I can say is WOW!
My Uncle in Leicester was a keen follower of football but never went to Premier League games; just the lower divisions.
Not that I’m interested in attending a Spurs or any-other football match, but how long will it take some kid to produce a fake “Green” pass?
Probably another nail in the coffin for the shit show that is modern day football. They should be mindful that many long term fans, myself included don’t need too much a large push to turn away from the game indefinitely.
The grand irony I’m seeing here is, speaking for my club, for the past year or so the social media has been full of this diversity and inclusion bollocks repeating that everyone is welcome at the club regardless of colour or creed etc. I’d be surprised if a lot of the big clubs haven’t been doing the same given that narrative push. I wonder if they’ll keep banging that drum if they decide to go along with this medical apartheid.
Good to see those with influence taking a stand against this medical aparthied …
Every country with freedom fighters has vastly more collaborators.
‘Ensure safety and comfort’…what’s comfortable about being tracked like tagged cattle?
We have to resist the digitisation of our lives as we are rapidly heading towards a total surveillance society with every aspect of our lives being determined ,or allowed, according to our social credit score.
https://youtu.be/qDRQv736Yzc
I will not entertain a health passport as a pre-condition of living any part of my life. Anywhere, anytime.
When we win this war. There will be no excuse for those who will say, ‘We didn’t know’ or ‘we were just following orders’. I really do believe we have to stop letting these marxists and communists off the hook by giving them a place to hide.
Well that’s me finished with going to see a match. They can stick it where the sun doesn’t shine. I’ll spend my money on something that doesn’t restrict my freedoms.
The reason that the Government have gone after football clubs is because they have contempt for those who follow football, they view them as thick neandethals who will do anything and support anything to be allowed to go watch a game.
What a great kick in the teeth it would be if those same supporters refused to play along and simply asked for refunds on their season tickets, didn’t attend the matches and stopped the flow of money to the clubs, you watch how quickly the freedom passport as decreed by this government would fade into insignificance.
Supporters of football show your humanity and don’t support nazi style segregation in this country.
I haven’t been to a football match for years so those that do go, how is this nonsense going to affect actually getting into the ground? Is it just a question of waving your phone screen at an official, like showing them a ticket, or is it more complex and will require you to present your phone to a screen to generate a pass? If the former, pretty easy to fake i would think and if the latter, how long is that going to take? And if thousands of people are all doing it at the same time just before kick-off, will the system stand up to it or crash?
I just can’t see this working, like so many things this government has tried to do and failed spectacularly.