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English Hospitals Told They Can Drop Some Covid Measures to Help Reduce Backlog

by Michael Curzon
27 September 2021 7:44 PM

In a move aimed at helping to cut down long and ever-growing treatment waiting lists, English hospitals have been told they can scrap some of the ‘anti-Covid’ measures they were forced to introduce during lockdown, including testing and isolating patients before planned operations. BBC News has the story.

The changes, recommended by the U.K. Health Security Agency (UKHSA), are aimed at easing pressure on the NHS.

It says testing and isolating patients before planned operations can be dropped and hospitals can return to normal cleaning procedures.

Social distancing can also be reduced from 2m to 1m in some areas.

More than five million people are waiting for NHS hospital treatment in England and hundreds of thousands have been waiting more than a year.

Although the Government has announced an extra £5.4 billion over the next six months to respond to the backlog caused by the pandemic, ministers have warned waiting lists could get worse before they get better, as more people come forward.

UKHSA Chief Executive Dr. Jenny Harries said the new recommendations would help local hospitals plan more elective care.

“This is a first step to help the NHS treat more patients more quickly, while ensuring their safety and balancing their different needs for care,” she said. …

Local hospitals will be left to decide when and how these changes are introduced.

Guidance on which measures can be relaxed in GP surgeries, dentists and for ambulance trusts are still being considered.

The recommendations were based on reviews of evidence and broad agreement from experts in infection prevention and control, the UKHSA said.

Worth reading in full.

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caipirinha17
caipirinha17
3 years ago

Interesting wording throughout both articles. It’s all very woolly about whether hospitals were actually mandated to impose extra ‘safety’ measures in the first place, and now it’s all about relaxing them ‘if no longer needed’, and ‘recommendations/guidance’ from the UKHSA. Who is making the decisions I wonder?

Also fairly sure that if local hospitals have the final say, you can bet the extra measures will be in place forever and a day, apart from the enhanced cleaning which although really quite important has generally been outsourced to the cheapest provider and the contracts they have won’t cover it.

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago

A glimmer of sanity and humanity in the National Hell Service.Hoo-bloody-ray.

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BS665
BS665
3 years ago

They’ll keep the measures, and claim extra money.

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Cristi.Neagu
Cristi.Neagu
3 years ago

Meanwhile, in English hospitals: “Wait… so… we’ll actually have to start doing work? No thanks, it’s not safe, no easing of restrictions!”

(This was mostly aimed at the management, not the nurses and doctors, even though I am sure it would be warranted there too in some cases.)

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Rowan
Rowan
3 years ago
Reply to  Cristi.Neagu

Most of them deserve our ire nurses and all. If they haven’t resigned by now they are part of the problem.

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Cristi.Neagu
Cristi.Neagu
3 years ago
Reply to  Rowan

You know, I had a good think about that… It’s a hard decision. I agree that morally resigning is the correct thing to do. It is the humane thing to do, to stop playing their game and flip over the table. But in practice, I don’t think it works. When you have a family to support, you cannot feed them good morality lessons when they’re hungry. And during these times, when everyone had to lay off a lot of staff, finding a job is very hard. It’s not a good time to quit your job. And you’d think that at least you’re sticking it to the man, but that doesn’t play out either. They can find a replacement for you in days.

So I don’t know… If everyone held to this ideal and people would quit en-masse, and other would refuse to work for such a company, then yes, I would totally condemn the nurses and doctors that have stood idly by, letting this happen. But here in there real world… it’s tough. It’s very hard to point the finger at them for keeping quiet to keep their job.

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Anonymous
Anonymous
3 years ago
Reply to  Cristi.Neagu

Not if you have taken the resignation step yourself after having battled against absence of ethics from within to no avail.
Actions speak louder than words.
The ethics of those who do not resign is questionable. They continue to get money but do not keep their self-respect.
You don’t go down unless you lose your self-respect

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RickH
RickH
3 years ago
Reply to  Anonymous

Oh – do stop virtue-poncing about.

The hard fact is that, in all sectors, the brainwashing initiative, with control of the entire MSM has been a raging success. It’s totally pointless expecting the programmed to simply see through the tissue of lies. They have to be de-programmed first.

I’m not programmed, wasn’t gullible enough to vote for Johnson’s lot, and, being retired, I don’t have to keep a job in order to live – so, despite outbursts of rage, I’m wary of simplistic condemnation of people who have more difficult choices to make.

Last edited 3 years ago by RickH
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Anonymous
Anonymous
3 years ago
Reply to  RickH

I was speaking from having had to make that choice myself.
You say you haven’t been faced with that dilemma.
The risk turns out to look worse than it turns out to be.
Whether or not you take that risk depends on how much you care about others versus how much you care about yourself.
In reality it’s a brutally tough choice to get faced with. I’m basically timid. If someone who is timid can do it, why don’t others?

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
3 years ago
Reply to  Cristi.Neagu

They could at least release anonymous information. They could become the spies within.
But I am afraid those taking part in the experimental gene therapy for children have no get out. They have to go or bear the moral price.
And that also goes for anyone involved in putting this in very old, frail, end of life patients.
Having children to support does not justify risking death or injury where the risk is known.
At the moment there are many many jobs available.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Rowan

be careful what you wish for…

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RickH
RickH
3 years ago
Reply to  Rowan

I don’t think alternative fictions are a good response to the dominant one.

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Paul B
Paul B
3 years ago

Fire up the covid machine boys we got some covid to spread in time for the winter lockdown…justifications.

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I am Spartacas
I am Spartacas
3 years ago

English Hospitals Told They Can Drop Some Covid Measures to Help Reduce Backlog

What? You mean no more TikTok dance routines?

Last edited 3 years ago by Ember von Drake-Dale 22
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yLivi.
yLivi.
3 years ago

Please… take a SERIOUS look to this link. This is IT.
https://clubderklarenworte.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Netzwerkanalyse-Corona-Komplex.pdf

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vivaldi
vivaldi
3 years ago
Reply to  yLivi.

Thanks for this explanatory link…..a tour de force. A ‘must read’.

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ebygum
ebygum
3 years ago
Reply to  yLivi.

A great link…169 pages…but I’m going to look through bit by bit…fascinating thanks.

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IanC
IanC
3 years ago
Reply to  yLivi.

Wow. Need to take some time over this. Thank you.

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amanuensis
amanuensis
3 years ago

Well, they didn’t do any good before and there’s no point in having them now.

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sjonesy1999
sjonesy1999
3 years ago

There are still Cofib measures?

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rtaylor
rtaylor
3 years ago

Maybe their bloodsucking clients need more organs as supply is low? I hear people that have been graphene oxided doesn’t go down well.

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Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
3 years ago

English Hospitals Told They Can Drop Some Covid Measures to Help Reduce Backlog
Like not resuscitating patients and just letting them die, or having hospitals and doctors’ surgeries closed for a year and a half so many people just die at home of no treatment? That’s one way the NHS has already been reducing the backlog.

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
3 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

That’s the usual way “our” NHS treats people

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JohnK
JohnK
3 years ago

Re. the comment about dentists: The last time I went to one, a few months ago, the only odd thing was that the receptionist was wearing a nappy. It was acceptable to wait in the waiting room etc. I didn’t try paying cash, though; that might have been a bit too much.

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wantok87
wantok87
3 years ago

When, as a retired surgeon, I needed to be examined I was astonished that a rational and highly intelligent individual had been lured into the Covid19 ritual. Chair sanitised before I sat on it , presumably to stop the rectal transmission of Covid19.? Masks mandated with social distancing preventing any normal interaction. I told the medical student who was present to examine me to confirm the obvious physical signs. She became upset because up to this point she had not put her hands on a patient, because of fear of Covid. The world has become a slave to the the religion of Covid.
It parallels any other faith, demanding absolutely observance to its rituals,dress code and practices with those who dare question its practices being labelled led outcasts.
Until the BMA and scientists start to place Care before Covid- we are lost.

Last edited 3 years ago by wantok87
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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
3 years ago

But no investment in more ICU beds for winter, huh?

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RickH
RickH
3 years ago

“The recommendations were based on reviews of evidence and broad agreement from experts …”

Well – isn’t it good to have been ahead of the ‘experts’ in one’s grasp of reality!

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IanC
IanC
3 years ago

“Government has announced an extra £5.4 billion over the next six months”

So, they are quite happy to dive even deeper into OUR pockets without even blushing, and expect us to pay for it all after they’ve already spunked squillions of our money on terrorizing and brutalizing us over a nasty flu-like cold, the likes of which and much worse, humankind has lived with for thousands of years.

When will this all end? How can they be allowed to carry on with these criminal activities?

There needs to be redress. We want our money back!. Recover some of our squillions and put it where it should have gone in the first place, healthcare!

That’s why there is a “2002 proceeds of crime Act”. Use it.

These are criminals who have benefitted from the proceeds of crimes (against humanity).

Easy to spot them, Most of them have a suffix after their names.. ‘MP’.

 
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