Health chiefs want Britons to follow a string of new Covid measures to fight record infection rates in the U.K. and ease pressure on the NHS. MailOnline has more.
The NHS Confederation accused No.10 of “abandoning any interest in Covid whatsoever”, warning that hospitals are set to deal with a “brutal Easter as bad as any winter”.
The group, which acts as a representative for hospitals and ambulance trusts, called for “mitigating actions” to stop the spread of the virus, such as not meeting people indoors and wearing masks in crowded spaces.
It comes just weeks after Covid restrictions, including the legal requirement to self-isolate, were scrapped under Boris Johnson’s ‘living with Covid’ plan. And England’s £2 billion-a-month mass-testing scheme was scrapped at the start of April.
The easing of rules has coincided with infection rates spiralling to the highest levels seen throughout the pandemic, with one in 13 people estimated to be infected at the start of the month.
Health bosses say the situation – fuelled by rising Covid rates and staff sickness – is impacting its ability to tackle the record backlog of patients needing care.
Millions of patients have already been told to stay away from busy A&E units unless they are genuinely dying, while ambulance services have urged some to make their own way to hospital.
The number of virus-infected patients in hospital last week breached 20,000 – the highest since February 2021. Although, figures also show thousands aren’t primarily ill with the virus.
“The brutal reality for staff and patients is that this Easter in the NHS is as bad as any winter,” said Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive of the NHS Confederation.
“But instead of the understanding and support NHS staff received during 2020 and 2021, we have a Government that seems to want to wash its hands of responsibility for what is occurring in plain sight in local services up and down the country. No.10 has seemingly abandoned any interest in Covid whatsoever. NHS leaders and their teams feel abandoned by the Government and they deserve better.”
“Mitigating actions” – including not meeting people indoors and wearing masks in crowded spaces – were needed to prevent the spread of the virus, the group said.
Worth reading in full, including the sidebar suggesting infections have peaked, based on the latest ONS infection survey.
For a less hysterical take on the ‘perfect storm’ currently afflicting the NHS, see this piece by the Daily Sceptic’s in-house doctor from yesterday.
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Masks don’t work and cause harm but then so do the management of the NHS.
the ventilators are what kills people ,any mention of ivermectin here ?, didnt read article.went staright to comments just saw ventilator and saw red
“I suppose all these people in the hospital are vaccinated. My patience is wearing thin with the vaccinated (double, triple or whatever). We should get rid of vaccinated people and isolate them.” (is sarcasm of any use with these non-elected officials?)
What obscene sums of taxpayers’ money are trousered by these idiots, who obviously failed to get a job organising a piss up in a brewery?
The fact that the NHS has consistently reduced bed numbers for years and years with consequent reductions in staffing requirements, under the watchful eyes of these incompetents, has absolutely nothing to do with them wetting their pants?
This needs to stop, and the best way to do that is to hang SAGE members from Westminster bridge. The damage these people have caused is treason.
The National Hiding Service wishes to bolster the “Skivers Charter”. When real citizens were growing up, they dealt with sniffles and carried on. Don’t see the Ukrainian army stopping fighting due to Covid-19. They have more important matters to attend to.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/602171
What I’ve noticed in recent times is that the government responds with one of its stock replies. In this case, it would be along the lines that ‘vaccines have proved effective in fighting the…blablabla’. So, it effectively stifles debate and it makes me feel like I don’t have voice, which is true of course. Anyone looking for the truth is endlessly sidelined, marginalised, ridiculed and so on. It makes me wonder if we will ever be heard. The dominant narrative is so strong these days it seems we are well and truly beaten but I believe that we can create our own narrative, it just won’t be so obvious. Anyway…long ramble…
Instead of questioning WHY, they just want more of the same.
Utter morons, the lot of them.
Same morons supporting sticking needles in kids arms!!!!!
This attitude from the medical fraternity, and the Government’s wish to sign a treaty with the WHO, which will enforce us to obey any medical procedures they endorse in a new pandemic situation is abhorrent.
The corrupt, compromised WHO organisation is owned and controlled, like most of the medical regulators around the world, by Big Pharma, Bill Gates and the CCP. To believe that this ghastly cabal has our best interests at heart is,frankly, laughable.
The WHO track record during the pandemic has been disgraceful.
They delayed and covered up the virus release from the Wuhan lab.
They promoted experimental gene editing bioweapons as vaccines, as safe and effective. They have none of these qualities and we will wake up to their horrendous side effects sooner or later. They are not vaccines in any sense of the word, resulting in the WHO changing the definition of a vaccine. Just like they did with “herd immunity “. They have deliberately suppressed any early treatment from cheap, safe very effective drugs like HCQ and Ivermectin, to enable the use of experimental injections for Emergency use authorisation, with full indemnity.
Hundreds of thousands of lives have been lost due to this genocidal policy.… Read more »
You can write (we all can ) but there is not much time before the deadline.
The World Council for Health are encouraging people to write to the WHO regarding the world pandemic preparedness treaty. In summary it would mean that countries could not decide for themselves how to deal with a pandemic they would be bound by whatever the WHO says. The deadline for comment is 13th April so not much time. I am trying to share where I can. https://worldcouncilforhealth.org/news/2022/04/stopthetreaty-comment-who-pandemic-treaty/66422/
Speak of the Devil, there it is! An advert for Ivermectin. Cures everything.
Government should take note of the comments of a senior government scientist, Mark Woolhouse, (see his book “The Year the World went Mad”) who concluded that the lockdown policy was a mistake. If Boris and others want to impose it again then it will simply confirm their intent to destroy our economy and country.
We need rid of Boris and others in government who support him. We need a replacement by a true Brit who will tell the globalists to take a hike rather than pandering to them.
I endorse that. I bought a copy of that book and posted my review of it a while back.
There definitely seems to be something worryingly odd going on in the UK, with cases, hospitalisations and deaths on the rise despite Omicron allegedly being far weaker than the earlier manifestations of the COVID virus.
Could the cause be a phenomenon one investigative researcher calls Vaccine Fixation Syndrome? If so, it could led to a debilitating, ongoing epidemic of chronic COVID, which in the medium to long term could have distrous consequences.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/covid-is-becoming-increasingly-vaccine
How is the vaccine rollout going is it going well has the cases and deaths gone down ,
no it cannot stop transmission or spread or even minimise symptoms and stop variants and why must the young healthy fit have it they do not die, or get very ill .
no one under 80 must get these jabs if they do not want too , I just saw Carol Malone say the NHS is just not working it is getting sinister now it already was sinister, this scamdemic .
I always dread it protect the NHS whatever the cost to mental physical health and your livelihood, I always never clapped for the NHS as I knew where this was going almost like a virtual like 1984 clap for the NHS like the Ministry of Truth a society which abandons Christian moral values, and god religion family values
this society simply now corrupt the public, private sector is run by lots of managers who have no idea how to deal with people or run a effective service.
it is just now Covid I suppose to another scariant comes along even the poorest sheep except for the cut food… Read more »
I thought use of Ivermectin to save lives obviated the need to use ventilators which have been judged as the wrong treatment for many Covid patients.
( Oh sorry, so easy to forget – Johnson, Hancock, Javid and Whitty have banned the use of safe cheap and effective Ivermectin.)
I thought you could order Ivermectin through the post, from India? Someone on here keeps advertising it. When you say ‘banned’ do you mean it’s stopped at Customs and destroyed? Is it illegal to order Ivermectin?
The current BNF lists IVERMECTIN Tablets Stromectol 3mg tablets (Imported (France)). However they are not licensed for treatment of covid. They could however be prescribed as an unlicensed medicine by a GP for an off-label use.
This is just getting ridiculous , now can a health service like that cannot be prepared to arrange its beds or sort out getting its backlog sorted out .
my question is how long can I and thousands sacrifice my life too save them and protect them , for 7 years 10 years forever ,
They are a absolute disgrace they had 51,000 thousand flu deaths in 2018 and about nearly every bed taken the NHS has been supposedly fall to burst before with seasonal flu for years look at the Guardian Daily mail, articles NHS overwhelmed for the last 20 Years
I hardly use the NHS I am a average curvy weight and size , I just exercise three to four times a week and do some jogging, weights press ups , leg pressers exercise bikes treadmills , and go to the gym three to four times a week ,
I practise yoga about three times a week , I drink water, . I have green smoothies eat lots of carrots broccoli, spinach, peas , potatoes , and have fresh fruit Watermelon Apples , Pears Blueberries , Raspberries, Avocados , and eat organic fish about three… Read more »
‘Covid’ is just a handy excuse for the Conservative Party to close down the NHS and introduce private-only health care for those who can afford it.
I thought maybe the NHS Confed was a knowledgeable body which might have some appropriate knowledge about epidemiology etc.
I struggled trying to extract any real meaning from what it said about itself – “The NHS Confederation is the membership organisation that brings together, supports and speaks for the whole healthcare system in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.”
So it would appear not to be medical at all but provides a talking shop for senior administrators in the NHS.
Then I thought that Prof Stephen Eames (the top man) might have relevant clinical experience. His main qualification is a masters in Executive Coaching and Development.
Why is their opinion more valid on this topic than any other non-medical person?
I cannot believe that NHS money is used to fund this business.
If the Queen got covid what chance do us mere working class scum have of avoiding it? Even with lockdowns and facemasks.
The Queen didn’t wear a face mask at the G7 meeting – she could have gotten it off Boris.
She also didn’t wear a face mask in Westminster Abbey a couple of weeks ago at the memorial service for Philip.
She’s obviously a risk-taker, and a selfish one at that – did she behave as if she had ‘it’ as the NHS posters suggest? No.
Your public services and welfare state are well and truly dead. Perhaps you can munch over the scraps.The reality is much darker in terms of the acceleration of the die off. It was nice when we lived in a sane world but that is all over now.
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If you’re a British citizen and pay National Insurance and so on, does it cost to be treated by the NHS and be in hospital?
It’s one way Brylcreem Rishi could claw back some of the money lost by importing all the face masks, other PPE, paying for Serco to operate Test’n’Trace, and for the vaccines…. by charging £100/day for a hospital stay.
If you think about it from the point of view of a seeker then our times represent the ultimate revelations on every level. So much is about to come out in the next few weeks. Apocalypse means the lifting of the veil. Revelatory and horrible at the same time is something that we must get used to.
Let’s face it.. The NHS would rather we were locked up screaming in our apartment blocks than they actually solve the problem.
If it’s such an issue, why were the nightingales closed?!
What is their step to normality? Would they like us to remain wearing gags forever?
Well, yes, they would.
“Lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans lobby group Stonewall last year reported that many LGBT NHS staff experience homophobic abuse from colleagues. Now a report from the NHS Equality and Diversity Council suggests NHS black and minority ethnic staff are also more likely to experience discrimination at work. If the NHS does not value diversity and encourage LGBT and BME staff, how can it offer non-discriminatory care?”
https://rcni.com/nursing-standard/opinion/comment/readers-panel-does-nhs-provide-a-positive-working-environment-59196
The next step is hemorrhagic diseases just becasue they are not only unpleasant to experience but also very unpleasant to witness. Even die hard anti-vaxxers might be scared by airborne Ebola. I guarantee that this will become a greater and greater issue in the coming months. You only have to look at the funding. So be wise to it.
So all the previous face naps, restrictions and the oh so bloody marvellous vaccine programme has done the total sum of eff all then? Let’s do more of the same and hope to get a different outcome! That is if you believe all the bollox, can’t add up the dots, and see the true agends for what it is. Christ, I’m so bored of it all..
Serco’s Test & Trace not bored of it at all! All that luvvly money Boris and Rishi are handing over to them.
Does anyone know exactly who gave the new T&T contract to Serco? What does T&T even do nowadays? Anyone been to their head office to find out?
All I can say is wait a few weeks and all of this chatter will count for nothing. Things will be more direct, your emotions won’t count for dick. This pretence that somehow we are are still living in a bourgeois age. Have we really become so stupid that we don’t even prepare for the shortages to come because we feel that we will somehow be exempt from them?
What shortages?
It would be interesting to see a list of predictions, and this time next year be able to look back and see what actually happened.
I remember the predictions last Summer that before Christmas people would be dead from ‘ADE’ from their 2nd jab…. didn’t happen, and, in fact, the triple-jabbed are eagerly awaiting their 4th.
I am not saying getting jabbed is a good idea, I’m just standing back and looking at the facts, and how things stand today.
It is deflection technique to distract from the incompetent, lazy, self-serving NHS ‘heroes’ who have contrived since 1950 to provide proportionately less at considerable more cost, resulting in a waiting list of 6 million – and growing – after their two years holiday doing less than half the work, on permanent standby for all the CoVid emergencies to flood in. These never came because the CoVid emergencies – such as they were – were already in hospital for other reasons where they were given CoVid by the top-notch hygiene standards of NHS staff, or on geriatric wards waiting to die of whatever they already had.
Time for mass sacking of NHS, shut it din, and for medical care to be a matter for the competitive, private sector. Time people learned to take care of and pay for themselves rather than expect everyone else to do so.
I know all about their top-notch hygiene. As in Addenbrooke’s, Cambridge, where your feet stuck to the filthy floor as you tried to walk. And where hand sanitiser containers were provided, but were empty.
Private quacks? No thanks! A properly run British NHS staffed by British, properly educated, staff is what’s needed.
I’ve always liked the idea of the NHS. Pay or die is not a nice system.
Everybody should have a good basic standard of living – the chance to study, work, earn more if you are diligent. The lazy ones will get no further, those who put in effort deserve, and should get, more.
But the American Capitalist system where the ambulance turns up and looks in your wallet to see if you can afford it….? That’s sick.
The Conservative Party has always hated the idea of the poor having access to free health treatment and have wanted to flog the NHS off, and have mostly succeeded in this. If you voted Conservative and need free hospital treatment or an ambulance and it isn’t there, you only have yourself to blame.
Look at what they’re doing in countries where the food has run out. You might think that it could never happen here but you would be mistaken. I’m talking about in a few weeks time I guarantee that the lockdown measures will be back and stricter than ever. They won’t even bother to say that it is about the spread of a disease. They just know that if they give the order then most will obey.
If Carlsberg made vaccines they wouldn’t be ones used for Covid. In the whole of medical history these so called vaccines must be the worst ever.
Ah yes, masks, well …
I read on Twitter that if there’s a global thermonuclear war, the only things on the planet to survive will be cockroaches and those in masks. FACT.
Clarification please. Do you mean those cockroaches in masks? Or are you implying that those in masks are cockroaches?
The second.
I concur.
Its almost like the ‘warp speed’ vaccines have made things much worse, almost like the jab junkies have wrecked their natural health by regular over exposure to this spike toxin and now they keep getting ill.
Its almost like the scientists that were silenced for warning about this had a point.
Yes.
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