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26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
The Government may impose mask mandates, vaccine passports and another lockdown if Covid hospitalisations increase. But almost a quarter of 'Covid inpatients' are actually in hospital for something else, figures show.
We're publishing another terrific post on the Daily Sceptic by Charlotte Niemiec. This one is about the unseemly haste with which the Government raised National Insurance and the flimsy rationale for doing so.
England's NHS waiting list has risen to a new high of 5.6 million, with almost 300,000 people waiting for more than 52 weeks to start treatment.
Frontline NHS workers will be barred from seeing patients or could lose their jobs if they don't get vaccinated against Covid, according to reports, with a consultation on mandatory vaccination due to be published today.
The was a spike in the number of mental health referrals in the U.K. in March 2021 compared to February 2020, before the onset of lockdowns. At the same time, the number of patients actually receiving care has fallen.
Almost 1.2 million people in England alone are being forced to wait for at least six months to access vital NHS services – nearly five times the number recorded in 2019. And matters will get worse before they get better.
The NHS waiting list in England could reach 14 million by next autumn, according to a new report by the IFS. And that, it says, is just the beginning: "Much longer waiting lists be with us for years to come."
The Daily Sceptic's in-house doctor says the widely trailed tsunami of hospitalisations has not only not yet arrived after 'Freedom Day', but that we seem to be on the downslope of the ‘third wave’.
The NHS is looking to redistribute Covid vaccine doses, as slowing take-up rates among young Brits means up to 170,000 Moderna doses are at risk of reaching their expiry dates.
The Daily Sceptic's in-house doctor – formerly employed by the NHS, now in private practise – has written a guest post about a recent Policy Exchange report on how the NHS should manage its huge waiting list. He isn't impressed.
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