Hospitals are still performing fewer operations and scans each month than before Covid, despite being given billions more taxpayer cash and being better staffed, as the waiting list continues to soar above 7 million. The Mail has more.
Analysis shows the health service in England carried out 600,000 fewer procedures in the first nine months of 2022, compared to the same period in 2019.
The slump in activity, noted by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, has been logged even though its budget grew by nearly £30 billion over the same period and fewer people than expected joined the queue for treatment.
IFS economists suggested that health bosses will now struggle to meet their pledge of boosting pre-pandemic capacity by 30% from 2024 – which the NHS was given an extra £10billion per year until 2025 to tackle.
The overall waiting list – already at an all-time high of 7.1 million – could keep rising “well beyond next year’ if the NHS fails to increase its activity, it said.
Ben Zaranko, one of the IFS economists behind the report, noted that there are also 13% more doctors – including 10% more consultants – as well as 11% more nurses and 10% more clinical staff in the NHS now compared to 2019.
More money, more staff, fewer joining the queue – yet fewer patients actually being treated and ever-lengthening waiting lists. And now a load more tax to fund yet higher NHS spending as the budget increases by a further £3.3bn.
What’s going on?
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At what date did it become clear that children were being hospitalised in New Zealand as a result of reduced immunity linked to “saint” Jacinda’s vicious lockdowns? Any major media organisations covering general news, such as the Times muppets, who failed to pursue this story and demand an end to such restrictions that may have been putting children’s health at risk (though surely it was always clear that this shambles was harming children?) should certainly be considered at least partly responsible for the deaths of these children through their neglecting to prominently cover this issue. Bring back the Birkenhead drill!
Dr. Stephen Griffin, an infectious disease specialist ….. Perhaps he should be sacked, if he believes in junk like that. “Immune debt” looks like a new phrase – perhaps a candidate for a dictionary? “Immune deficit” looks quite similar, or in effect, another synonym.
Masking is a filthy habit and terrible for the environment (and mental well-being, and teeth, and…). Would I be going too far to suggest that Stephen should be in prison – or the nut house?
I remember how angry I was on hearing from one of the lads at our anti-lockdown prayer group about how upset one of his children was about being asked to mask at school. People like Stephen harm children too.
Griffin – member of Independent SAGE and the All Party Parliamentary Group on Coronavirus. Probably got ‘The Narrative’ tattooed through to his bone marrow.
https://medicinehealth.leeds.ac.uk/medicine/staff/384/dr-stephen-griffin
Over the last 3 years, I have concluded that an average farmer or tradie (independent of thought, in touch with reality, unadulterated by “groupthink”) has a significantly greater understanding of Covid “science” than probably 90% of doctors. A medical degree only guarantees an inability to think, coupled with an adherence to commands from the medical elite. A specialist degree generally galvanizes this thought process.
Are you a real doctor?
Mrs Lemming works in a GP surgery and she’s seeing a ridiculous number of frightened parents demanding antibiotics for their child who has a sore throat. So, a weakened immune system, brought about by lack of natural exposure to germs and viruses, is being treated by weakening the immune system further by mass prescription of antibiotics. Just a thought.
Absolutely correct.
The sad thing is that this has been known for a long long time.
Sir Macfarlane Burnet, immunologist/virologist and Nobel prize winner , “Natural History of Infectious Disease”. 1951.
Basically, if the equilibrium between mankind/virus and bacteria is upset (ie quarantine of the healthy, social distancing, mass vaccinations with a dodgy none sterilising jab) don’t be surprised at the horrendous consequences.
He should be compulsory reading for all medics and wannabe “Health Experts”.
That said, he’d no doubt be condemned as an anti-vaxxer these days.
I did hear that Jabbing youngsters has something to do with this ??
Our local 1,400 pupil High School announced today that 284 kids (20%) were off sick, a record. How much is illness, how much hysteria & how much parents just accepting that going to school or not isn’t a big deal I leave to others to consider.
I sent this to my teaching union after they asked me to support their industrial action:
I think that we have to accept that because our union was so vociferous in its support for the (entirely foreseeable) ruinous lockdown, we need to own the economic tsunami that it has wrought. I did write to beg you all to change course but safety first was the mantra of the day. Sadly we are only now beginning to appreciate how harmful lockdown was to the health, welfare and education of millions. Anybody who supported lockdown ought to graciously accept the economic haircut rather than expecting the government to borrow more money from the future earnings of our children to fund a pay rise for public servants who were too cowardly to go to work for months on end when there was a bit of bad flu circulating.
Excellent points.
Trouble is, those sorts of people don’t want to accept responsibility for their own actions, in the same way that they instinctively turn to government to solve all their difficulties.
I’m wondering if its multi-jabbed parents shedding spike all over the kids that’s having an effect and causing something like a secondary immune deficiency rather than this lockdown ‘debt’ malarkey. Admittedly the evidence is as yet far from clear but it does seem to be coalescing in favour (particularly Dr Banoun’s recent paper as highlighted by Dr McCullough). If so it would seem a more coherent explanation as to why background illnesses like strep A and scarlet fever are making a comeback – although the implications are terrifying. (Some very young family members have been ‘unwell’ practically permanently for about a year now, poor things, with both respiratory and gut issues. Both parents quad jabbed.) Quick review: https://rumble.com/v1ybhtw-shedding-concerns-it-looks-like-the-mrna-is-transferring-from-the-vaccinate.html
Banoun’s paper here: https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/health-of-pure-bloods-threatened
Second-hand VAIDS?
Yep. Or PAIDS (Parent Acquired….)
Indeed, immunity debt is all too real. We saw the first signs of that last year in New Zealand with RSV, even before the jabs (as they were very late to the party) and when there was barely any COVID at all. That makes it possible to tease out the effect of immunity debt.
This is both a direct effect, as well as also indirect from new mothers passing in their relative lack of antibodies (from their own relatively lack of exposure) to their babies via breastmilk, particularly for things like RSV.
And now the chickens have really come home to roost worldwide.
Of course, to make matters worse now…everyone has VAIDS! VAIDS VAIDS VAIDS!
It is possible that it is due to ‘immune debt’. But it is only one potential mechanism and it isn’t ‘science’ to simply declare that you know what it is and that’s the end of the matter.
We really need to see active processes trying to determine the causal factors of this outbreak.
And let’s not forget…everyone has VAIDS! VAIDS VAIDS VAIDS!
Have you any ideas for other mechanisms? (Genuine question.)
Oh Really?
I aint any doctor but a 2 minute search shows that there is a long-held understanding that exposure to a live influenza virus increases the susceptibility to streptococcus (pneumonia and GroupA) in young people and immuo-compromised individuals.
So what are we doing right now? yup, blasting Nasal vaccines (Flumist for a name) up every individual too stupid to remember what a waste of natural immunity the last 2 years were.
So we have natural influenza and man-made influenza (live virus in Flumist) in rampant circulation and were all supposed surprised and wonder what is going on? Strep A. Add that to the increase in occurrence of HIV, Shingles, Monkey Pox and a whole heap of ailments I cant even write.
It would be interesting to know if the children who have sadly died from Strep A had been jabbed for Covid …… and their natural immune systems weakened still further by these dangerous products.
If lockdowns were successful in preventing Covid then Strep A and everything else would have killed more children than Covid did, because Covid would have killed no children. So this headline could be taken as a testimony to the success of lockdowns.