The number of patients waiting for routine hospital treatment in England has soared to a new record of 6.18 million, as ambulance and emergency department waits also reach all-time highs. MailOnline has the story.
NHS data show one in nine people were in the queue, often in pain, for elective operations such as hip and knee replacements and cataracts surgery by February – up from 6.1 million in January.
Separate data show A&E performance plummeted to its worst ever level in March, with a record 22,506 people waiting 12 hours to be treated, three times longer than the NHS target. Just seven in 10 patients in casualty units were seen within the four-hour threshold, marking the worst performance yet.
Ambulance figures reveal heart attack and stroke patients were left waiting for more than an hour for paramedics to arrive on average – another record.
Health bosses argue the NHS has faced its busiest ever winter and a slight drop among the longest waiters show it is tackling the backlog.
NHS leaders said the health service needs more cash to fill its 110,000 vacancies and ongoing problems in social care, despite receiving a record £136.1 billion this year to help it recover from Covid.
Ministers announced an elective recovery plan earlier this year, setting out how waiting lists will finally start to fall from March 2024, while two-year waits would be scrapped by the summer. But experts today warned “it is hard to imagine an end in sight, with lengthy waits for healthcare firmly here to stay”.
It comes as doctors today say record-high Covid infection are leading to operations being cancelled across England, despite daily admissions and the number of infected patients in hospital trending downwards.
How can this winter have been the “busiest ever” when excess deaths were trending below average throughout. Surely last winter, with the Alpha Covid wave in full swing, was much busier. Hard to sort the truth from the exaggeration in the messages coming out from the health service, particularly with health bosses lobbying for the return of restrictions.
Have they forgotten it’s the restrictions that got us into this mess, by telling people to stay at home when they’re ill, cancelling operations ‘because Covid’ and storing up the mother of all backlogs?
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All “factored in” to the “project”?
The lack of any ‘official’ concern suggests it was.
I cannot remember a time when the lives, health and welfare of Citizens was regarded with such contemptuous indifference by the “Authorities”.
A shrug seems the answer to all concerns!
The ‘average’ wait of more than one hour for an ambulance hides the truly dire situation in many cities. My sister in Leicester had symptoms of a heart attack and collapsed. Those with her called for an ambulance and were told they would have to wait for at least six hours – this in a city of almost 1/2 million people. At the same time we are sending Ambulances to Ukraine – absolutely disgusting. Our first priority must always be our own people.
It would be good to know some other things:
1) Length of waiting lists in those benighted countries such as Austria, Switzerland Japan etc, that are not blessed with an NHS.
2) Comparative stats on Lockdown lunacies indulged in by a country and medical backlogs / educational backlogs etc.
Correlation not being causation and all that however its a big 4king cluestick.
It comes as doctors today say record-high Covid infection are leading to operations being cancelled across England.
Towards the end of the article, one can find the real news corresponding with this statement: The head of the Royal College of Surgeons said that treatment is again being cancelled in parts of the country because NHS staff members are still being forced to stay away from work due to nothing more but a positive, routine Sars-CoV2 test. Obviously, this comes among all the other, well-known Corona chestnuts associated NHS, eg, 20.000 healthy patients who can’t be discharged due to nothing but a positve, routine Sars-CoV2 test, less than half of the so-called COVID cases being admitted for COVID etc.
The conclusion is that the people responsible for NHS policy decisions are intentionally crippling the health service because they’re wedded to pandemic cosplaying. It’s high time to hold them accountable for that and that’s certainly no reason to piss yet more money up this particular wall. The NHS would need to hire about 500,000 additional people, about 285,000 of them being professionally qualified clinical staff, just to cover for the 40% persistent staff absences caused spurious COVID testing. That’s clearly impossible.
I can’t understand why nothing is ever said about the high incidence of patients catching covid in hospital. What is the reservoir of infection? 50% of positive tests contracted in hospital. If that was salmonella, legionella, rotavirus or other infections, there would be an outcry until the source had been found. Nobody ever seems to suggest finding where these people convert to positive, although we all know they are not cases of covid.
Maybe there is a special PCR test only issued to hospitals that gives a much higher ratio of positive tests to negative. I can’t see any reason for it, but I wouldn’t put anything past these morons.
The NHS is a absolute disaster. The clowns who presided over the Covid fiasco are daring to ask for more money while lying yet again saying that they’ve just come out of the worst winter ever (simply not true) and needing to fill 100.000 vacancies. What vacancies though? You can bet your life most of those are NOT for frontline staff. The whole thing needs tearing up and starting again along a new model.
And the MSM as their mouthpiece. The NHS has been the same disaster for years but the MSM is in on the Agenda now
Vacancies like these?
in summary
Give us more cash. we will continue to be rubbish but paint ourselves as Angel’s and heroes until 6 months time when we will need more money again.
Privatise this unfit for purpose service
The NHS is now completely broken.
The solution to this needs to be at a fundamental level, not telling everyone to behave (wait until dying to visit A&E) or by throwing money at it (always ineffective without an actual plan).
Please let’s not call medics “doctors”. A “doctor” is a person who has completed a doctoral degree, which means they are recognised as having made a contribution to knowledge, having done research which led them to knowing more about one particular area than anyone else in the world.
Most of the moneygrabbing lying lazy shysters called “general practitioners” have never done any research in their lives or come anywhere near making a contribution to knowledge.
(Nowadays there are “taught doctorates” too, but they don’t count either, AFAIAC. There is no legal protection of the term “doctor”.)
This has to be affecting all cause mortality, it just has to be, yet it’s still below average. They are lying about that too.
Evil bastards just approved the jabs for 5-11 yo’s, why wouldn’t they lie about how many are dying.
Are they fiddling the overall mortality figures? Thats’ interesting if true, because over time it will lead to a growing overhang. Where does it go from there, I wonder?
It’s pretty obvious they are fiddling the suicide figures.
It’s long been the case that the recorded “causes of death” are often not worth the paper they’re written on. All medics know this.
Cr*ppy care in hospital probably knocks out quite a lot of people with dehydration.
If you listen very very carefully to what hospital medics (and also plumbers, driveway builders, etc.) say, you may see that they are really proud of themselves when they’ve pulled the wool over someone’s eyes, and they will actually tell you this in their body language, facial expressions, and word choices.
They assume you are as thick as two short planks. If they say any old sh*t and you believe it, that cheers them up. Medics are more extreme than plumbers because the number of lies they tell every day is much higher.
The fundamental rule where medics are concerned is “Thou shalt cover thine a*se”. All of them know that, too.
I can’t prove it, but wouldn’t put anything past these psychopaths. But just using some common sense, heart disease is the leading cause of death in this country, if heart attack victims are waiting longer and longer for medical aid they are more likely to die, and this surely is going to be reflected in the mortality data, which it isn’t…..yet.
Then there’s the heart damage from the fake jabs which is occurring big-time, a recipe for even more heart attacks.
That had to be rhetorical, since it would otherwise assume those running the NHS to be moderately competent.
The Tory Rwanda plan is clearly a fraud, I know this because it is a plan put forward by the Tories.
They are presenting the Rwanda plan as stopping illegal immigration but I think this system is intended to make it easier for asylum seekers to get into the UK. After all the Tories are globalists and globalists are dedicated to destroying the people of the UK with mass migration.
I suspect that any African that so fancies will be able to turn up in Rwanda and claim asylum in the UK, this will be a damn site easier for them than having to get across the Sahara, the Med, Europe and the Channel.
Of course the UK officials working in Rwanda will grant every man and his dog valid asylum status and the Tories will end up flying tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands into the UK each year.
The Tories might be able to remove the bad optics of thousands of boat people rocking up, people won’t see what is happening when the asylum seekers are being unloaded at Heathrow.
So all this is about dealing with bad optics not stopping the relntless immigration.
Interesting discussion on GB news last night, Mark Steyn, with a Ugandan Official
You mentioned the monarchy five times in that post, @MrTea.
“I suspect that any African that so fancies will be able to turn up in Rwanda and claim asylum in the UK”
Something must be wrong with your premises or logic if you think that could possibly be how things turn out.
The policy if it is implemented is unlikely to have much effect on immigration to Britain. It was announced to help Boris Johnson through “Partygate”. At least they didn’t sink a boat in the Channel this time.
I understand that Israel already has a similar deal with Rwanda, so Priti Patel might be taking a personal rake-off too.
The most important lesson from the “pandemic play” that the rulers began in 2020 is this: look after your health. Do things every day to look after yourself.
If you can, take up running, or cycling, and do physical exercises. Try to get fresh air. (This is difficult in some areas, but do your best.) Make sure you get enough iron and vitamins, especially vitamin C. Have a decent diet. If you have heart problems or other issues such that running around the park is obviously out of the question, then find some stuff that you can do, and make sure you do it. Don’t sit there feeling sorry for yourself. Don’t trust medics. Don’t trust nurses. Don’t trust politicians, experts, or scientists, Don’t rely on your weekly monthly annual infrequent contacts with the “health service” to tell you what you need to know, or to give you enough material to chat about until your next contact (which in many cases may never come). Be an improver. While you’re at it, be aware that vegetarians live on average 10 years longer (men) and 6 years longer (women) than flesh-eaters. Didn’t know that? What else don’t you know?
All the things… Read more »
‘While you’re at it, be aware that vegetarians live on average 10 years longer (men) and 6 years longer (women) than flesh-eaters. Didn’t know that? What else don’t you know?’
How much meat do I need to eat so that I die at the age of 47, I am 46.
‘then you were asking for health problems, including weaker resistance to bacteria and viruses that cause respiratory illnesses.’
Unless viruses do not cause disease.
The viral delusion
https://www.bitchute.com/video/jajyAdPMdzfJ/
So much negativity man!
You completely ignore just how wonderfully the Toris have done in terms of injecting people with multiple doses of a so called ‘vaccine’ that clearly doesn’t work.
So you ignore their massive success that literally saved all of humanity whilst focusing on the teeny tiny issues like the collapse of everything else.
It’s not as if Labour, the Liberal Democrats, Reform UK, the Brexit Party, the Scottish Nazional Partei, Plaid Cymru, the Greens, or Respect spoke against the mass vaccination campaign.
The previous PM was ousted because she couldn’t get a trade deal that we didn’t really need anyway, the reason given that it would seriously damage our economy not to have a deal.
The current PM annihilates the entire country but no mention of ‘no confidence’.
And we taxpayers are now handing over 1.25% more NI to keep the national lurgy service going. Total madness.
When you put it like that.
If communist powers ever took control and run Britain I often think it would look and feel just how the NHS is run today – lots of wonderful colourful propaganda everywhere telling us how lucky we all are and endlessly encouraged to celebrate our good fortune … when in reality its a living nightmare that no one dares to mention or speak out about for fear of facing the consequences from the indoctrinated disciples to the cause.
Consider that the market (and the truth is that markets have never been “free”) boils down to another set of “target indicators”. This is directly relevant to the topic in hand because it means you cannot for one moment trust official statistics, any more than you could in the USSR.
The ‘experimental aspect ‘ of all of this seems to be the key. Are the pharma companies paying governments for the results on their citizens, on their new gene therapeutics. The ‘Brexit bonus that the UK couldn’t do if we were still in the EU.
If the experimental aspect were key, that would mean that the main aim was to find out what would happen. Do you think that’s the case?
Possibly why the ‘reactions’ are logged
It is clearly time to wind the NHS up and start again. It has totally failed this nation over the past two years and its inadequacies are there for all to see. Maybe it is time to go back to local independent community hospitals, accountable to the local community and run by members of the local community, and crucially, staffed by medical professionals who actually care for people.
Indeed. The tentative plans to allow us to shop around trusts for treatment is interesting, but then notionally the same applies to GP surgeries. And we know how that’s worked out.
As long as we can only access services that we’ve already paid for, supply will not increase.
My family was with the same GP for fifteen years with no problems, we rarely used them.
After declining their generous offer of coming in to be injected with the warp speed magic sauce we got a letter telling us that after a review they did not want us at their practice any more, they claimed we were outside their catchment area (we had not moved).
So much for choice.
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She’s got a point. Move over Greta Thunberg.
Such a shame that about 90 -95% of the population wouldn’t a)know who Klaus Schwab is or b)have a clue about what she is talking about
The NHS is in tatters and will remain so for a long time. One thing they could do is open up fully because right now they’re not despite what they keep saying.
In spite of all the money poured in to it, and the total Horlicks the NHS is in, the majority of the population still believe this to be something worth idolising and saving. It’s nuts.
Interesting read
https://goodsciencing.com/covid/athletes-suffer-cardiac-arrest-die-after-covid-shot/
And in the US military – “The DoD is reportedly actively deleting data from the database, possibly to cover up the genocide that has been perpetrated on military personnel.”
https://joannenova.com.au/2022/04/the-year-of-collapsing-athletes-890-athletes-collapse-or-die-and-counting/
Watched the FA cup semi final between LFC and Man city this afternoon. Brilliant game played at highest level by both teams.
Klopp previously very pro-vaxx and wanted all players jabbed.
Based on the performances I have seen they must have had saline – there is no way they could keep up that tempo without collapse.
Sack all the thousands of diversity and gender-bender managers, employed on mega-salaried terms because they are friends and relatives of the political class. Then genuine health staff will be able to do their jobs without having to watch what they say
A mate of mine had a heart attack six weeks ago which, thankfully, he survived. The bad news is that he needs a quadruple heart bypass. The doctors insisted that he remains in hospital while he waits for his op’. He’s a builder – very outdoors orientated – and is going stir crazy stuck in hospital where, needless to say, he feels fine. That’s the nature of coronary heart disease where you can nominally be at death’s door but feel absolutely fine. Anyway, last week he caught Covid and his op’ date was put back a further four weeks. So, he’ll spend at least ten weeks in hospital before he even has his surgery. Some folks here might be thinking this is’t just down to the usual waiting lists and backlog and that heart attacks along with the treatments are on the rise for other reasons. Now, although my mate is triple vaxxed, he is 65 and does have some issues that might trigger heart disease, so one can’t conclude his condition was triggered by the vaccines. However, I think it’s safe to say that the long wait for his op’ is indeed due to other patients who have heart… Read more »
In addition to my builder friend, my sister fell over and broke her leg recently. She has very advanced MS and was lying on the floor unable to move for six hours waiting for an ambulance.
The NHS is completely broken, utterly dysfunctional.
They’ll do the operation and give him statins for the rest of his life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUMUhp1pSyM&t=2292s
https://sebastianrushworth.com/2022/04/14/what-defines-a-good-drug/
Very interesting read, quite an eye-opener about the actual value to the patient of drugs compared to their possible harm.
Yes, good link mm – thank you.
True mwhite.
I had a heart attack eleven years ago and I’ve been taking them ever since – albeit on the lowest possible dose. It’s a tricky one because I received very good and timely care that almost certainly saved my life. For that I’m eternally thankful and feel duty bound to take the prescribed medication on the grounds that – according to the cardiologist who performed my angioplasty (stent), they will help ensure the two of us never meet again – in a hospital context at least.
What is the purpose of GPs? They act mainly as gatekeepers nowadays, but in the past they did all those minor couple of stitches incidents. And before that even simple fractures and childbirth. Because most folk had no transport, the infrastructure didn’t exist to processize patients.
I can only assume GPs have little training and have been utterly de-skilled – in comparison, vets still do all the actual treatments themselves.
I would, and I say this without joke or hyperbole, prefer to get routine treatments and diagnoses from my local veterinary practice than my local GPs.
Precisely. Although independent vetinerary practices are slowly being acquired by chains, so I hope a similar de-skilling doesn’t occur. Otherwise you know where that will lead, crap care and insistence on frequent mandatory jabbings which do more harm than good.
Until recently veterinary surgeons were allowed to treat humans.
To my mind they presently exist to jab people and collect a payment for it.
Stop complaining. There has been a great victory. The NHS has been saved. Rejoice
I raise you Northern Ireland.
Indeed BeBop. Stephen Nolan trying to take on local RCGPs and they come back hand wringing and bleating about how hard the GPs are working.
I don’t see any evidence of it. My GP still won’t let me past the entrance doors.
I’ve heard they are still spending a lot of time on medically pointless testing protocols specifically directed at unvaxxed patients. And to think they were going to fire staff for not taking the vax :O
Not just the unvaxxed. I know someone who is at least triply jabbed; but on being taken to hospital, she was tested – result negative- admitted and tested again – result now positive. She was then put on a covid ward for a while, until yet another test was negative and she was moved.
They are also spending money begging those with long-term health conditions to come into hospital for experimental treatment (ineffective, dangerous and very expensive). In the past fortnight they have sent me a couriered pack of LFTs (I refused to accept delivery) and have harassed me with SMS and a letter, begging me to take multiple LFTs if I have a cold, and promising priority experimental treatment.
Says it all really.
Two years ago, the sainted NHS closed its doors to just about everything except “covid” cases. Old people were removed from hospital beds to make way for the expected influx of covid patients. Routine work was cancelled, treatments stopped or never even started. At the same time, those Nightingale hospitals- remember them?- were built to house the expected covid rush.
Well, the Nightingales were hardly, if ever, used. And though some covid patients were admitted – didn’t we have nightly covvip0rn on the TV? – for a lot of the time hospitals were woefully underused. Remember all those Tiktok videos of dancing nurses? Did the NHS bosses think that while normal service was suspended, people were not getting ill?
Did they think that they’d just pick up where they left off? Did no-one say “hang on, we’d better try to get through some cases, otherwise there’s going to be one hell of a backlog when we get going again”.? Even I could see that all this was doing was storing up massive problems for the future.
And I’m nobody. You’d think all these highly paid NHS head honchos would have sussed it.
No-one in Government seems to think more than 48 hours ahead…
Or until they’ve had the poll or focus group results of their latest faddish idea.
…also known as “Lets run it past Zak Goldsmith and see what he thinks.”
The last five words (counting ’48’ as one word) are redundant.
‘No-one in Government seems to think more than 48 hours ahead…‘
No-one in Government
seems tothink[s]more than 48 hours ahead…How’s that?
Great editing – DS might take you on.
They’re highly paid because they believe they should be paid as much as senior people in the wealth creating part of the economy. The metrics they use are size of budget and numbers of staff under them. Happily they ignore the facts that they cannot be fired for incompetence and they are running a monopoly. And of course they use remuneration consultants to ‘prove’, they deserve their rewards. Another cunning plan by Bliar.
The metrics they use are the size of their egos multiplied by (their sense of importance plus entitlement)squared; an empire builder’s version of Einstein’s theory.
Exactly!
Yeah but the mates of politicians who ran the Nightingale scams were able to put mega-bundles if readies into their friends’ back pockets.
Not entirely bad then?
Maybe they were hoping that with a bit of luck a lot of the people on that backlog list might have died off before they had to open their doors again.
Kind of likely if they were elderly, got no health care for over 2 years and then began to get a series of jabs seemingly designed to accelerate the process?
Standing outside clapping the National Hiding Service is currently banned as you might wake them up.
What really gets me about the NHS whinging like this is that they are still pushing the useless vaccines instead of coming clean about cheap, safe and effective treatments that would keep lots of people out of hospital.
Covid seems to be low on their list of problems for the time being.
Covid itself, yes, but the theatre surrounding Covid remains strong and has a depressingly permanent feel to it.
Yet this theatre did little to prevent a large % of patients being infected in the hospitals.
They’ll still rather write Covid on your death certificate because they get brownie points, promotion and cash from a government that needs to scare the sheeple.
What really gets me about the Nothing Helps Service, whinging like teacher’s unions, is that they are still getting even more financing, yet delivering less and less.
A conspiracy theorist might wonder if it has been designed to fail? 🤔
It was the medical trade unions that pushed for the burning of the village wise woman, who used ancient knowledge of herbs to effect cures, thus threatening the incomes of the snake oil salesmen otherwise calling themselves doctors.