Hi There,
I am sure many of us have seen anecdotal stories of A&E being full from MSM outlets, and also that they are not as busy as usual from other sources (twitter/Youtube). Is there anyone on here who has first-hand knowledge of how busy the hospitals really are, and how it compares to other years?
I know two trauma nurses, who have said they are not that busy, but put it down to people not getting out and about enough to hurt themselves. They were not so open to discussing the effect of respiratory illnesses on the number in hospital. The closest one of them came to saying anything further is "It's a load of old bollocks", but he wouldn't elaborate further.
I know another nurse who handed in her notice in the first lockdown, because she felt bad turning so many people away from normal treatment, becaue of Covid, when they didn't have many Covid patience anyway. She did say that as diseases that she's treated in her career, she'd rather take her chances with Covid compared to most of the others.
Thanks,
Grub
Plenty of ambulances parked outside treating patients in Wales.
Relative of mine spent 8 hours in one waiting to get into the building a week ago.
How much of it is covid and how much is normal winter pressure remains to be seen.
...and also, how much of it is caused by the over-reaction to Covid causing delays. There's the extra social distancing and sanitation procedures. The fact that thousands of NHS staff are self-isolating because a kid in their child's class had a cough. There's also the fact that every year the NHS claims that it is overwhelmed, so it's hard to know how different this is. We only get a small portion of the facts, and the Government and MSM clearly mislead us.
Staffing is the bottleneck.
Actual occupancy is lower than normal but half the staff are at home watching Netflix for 10 day stints.
