"By the latter half of 2022 it seemed we had turned a corner on masks," writes Jill Evans. "Only a deviant minority persisted with wearing them. But as we enter a new year, this return to sanity is under threat."
NHS management will play it long, awaiting a Labour Government in 2024, when more taxpayer cash will be handed over for no discernible increase in service levels, writes the DS in-house doctor. Better not get ill or old.
NHS mask mandates are arbitrary, depending more on where you happen to live than any actual science. Yet they don't seem to be going away, writes Paul Stevens.
Unwell adults should stay at home and wear a mask if they have to go outside, health chiefs said today amid warnings the NHS is facing more pressure than it did during the peak of the pandemic.
Sir Chris Whitty has warned that thousands of middle-aged people are dying of untreated heart conditions, blaming their reluctance to burden the NHS at the heigh of the pandemic.
Seventy of England’s acute hospital trusts are spending £8,220,783 a year on equity, diversity and inclusion officers, according to the Telegraph. Meanwhile, 7.2 million people are waiting to start treatment.
An NHS Trust has ordered interview panels to provide a written “justification” if they offer a job to a white applicant. Needless to say, they’re under no such obligation if they hire a non-white applicant.
An NHS Trust in the Midlands is advertising for a ‘Director of Lived Experience’ – salary £115,000. Bit tone deaf, given that a newly-qualified NHS nurse earns about £27,000.
Smile Free, which campaigns against mask mandates, predicted that whether you had to wear masks in hospitals and clinics would become a ‘postcode lottery’, unconnected with science or evidence. And so it has come to pass.
The French pay the same for their health service as Brits, but this gets them far more doctors and nurses, much less bureaucracy and much better outcomes. Why don't we ditch the 'our NHS' dogma and learn from them?
