Gonna need a lot of war rooms when your staff come out on strike.
War rooms. Warm banks. Blackouts. Endless strikes.
What a mess this country will be in this winter.
Call me naive but I’m sure all of this is only for worst case scenarios. If it’s like the last few winter’s we’ll be OK but remember a few years back when water pipes were bursting with the ‘beast from the east’? It was absaolutely freezing
Ah found a new scaremongering angle have we? LOL. Nice try.
And pray tell, how much cash is being syphoned off to pay for ‘consultants’ to organise the ‘data driven war rooms’.
No, on second thoughts, don’t bother. Just fuck off with your scare mongering press releases.
If they’re hot war rooms then I’ll go, it’ll save me freezing my arse off at home.
I wonder if we’ll get some dancing tik tok vids from inside them, because that’s what you do at times of health crisis, right?
Too few staff and increased risks from people being unable to afford food and heating. All you need is a bad flu season on top of that for things to get very nasty. The hospital I work at has consistently had fewer than ten beds across two sites for the last few weeks, a bad winter would mean inhumane waiting times to get into hospital and a severe risk to life.
The oldies who this will affect most only have themselves to blame. Stop voting tory
I thought this said ‘warm rooms’ for the energy crisis but my hopes were dashed.
Here we go. Not only is there the rise of another covid sub-strain, but there are other factors at play here that will undoubtably feed into some terrible situations this winter.
Firstly, due to the increased cost of energy, you’ll have folks not turning on the heat as much. If we have a cold winter, this could lead to older and more vulnerable people sitting in very cold and damp conditions. Which, aren’t great for avoiding pneumonia and generally feeling “well”. This, coupled with the new apparently powerful covid strain would be enough to see stress on the NHS. Also, add in the fact that nurses (as well as doctors) are strained, underpaid and aren’t getting any support from the gov. Apparently, they are well paid enough?? Obviously, any future nurse strikes will compound these factors.
This will affect the already poor statistics that some may face already just from catching the flu/pneumonia/covid in older and more vulnerable states.
Hopefully, these “war room” tactics will get ahead of the curve and do their intended function.
However, I can only feel that this round of politics this year has added a terrible factor to the mix. Where, we may see some worrying hospitalisation/death statistics. Heres hoping to a warm winter.
Hopefully this is just a negative outlook.
What about the Nightingales?
The sham Test and Trace?
Yet another Tory truck stop for more money to magically disappear.
The NHS won’t need war rooms: they’ll need to convert more wards into morgues, because millions will probably die due to cold and hunger alone (thanks to the Tories).
The last two years were in a pandemic, how can it possibly get worse than that?!
Was introduced to a new concept today at the hospital I work at; it’s called ‘onboarding’ apparently which is a fairly innocuous term for what turns out to be a new policy whereby new patients can be transferred to the ward before the previous one has actually been discharged.
One lady went to use the toilet and found somebody else had been put in her bed this morning, and she couldn’t even go and sit in our day room because they’ve filled the day room with beds too. Naturally most of these people aren’t actually unwell, they’re just waiting for social care/their families to actually look after them, but even so it’s ridiculous.
I feel so fucking guilty just putting heating on for my kids so I barely do but we aren’t in the depths of winter right now and I’m getting worried.
We are in debt with Eon like most now and I just don’t know what we are going to do, I’ve job interview for a pretty good job, pay will help us and I’m hoping I’ll get it. I’ll be able to pay the bills but I’ll hardly see my kids.
Literally hate this country atm.
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I can’t find it now, but someone gathered together all the headlines from this time of year for the past 20 odd years and they’re all “NHS at breaking point!” “24 hours to save the NHS!” “NHS FACES TOUGHEST WINTER EVER!!!”
It’s as regular as the “I took my kids to a shitty Christmas wonderland in Coventry,” stories.
And before we start, I am aware the Tories have fucked the NHS over and it is indeed on its arse at the moment, and things are very bad.
Half the beds will be occupied. 90% of the beds are already occupied, what are you doing to empty beds? After you sacked all the care staff. War rooms-this is happening daily anyway, MH support is needed and ambulance support is needed but they are both at capacity, so how will you increase their workload in a few weeks. Bunch of bollocks, it’s been set up to fail and will fall flat on its face this winter.
The Times
Living Room Health
Private health clinics are offering walk-in MRI scans for £250 as the NHS waiting list hit 7 million.
It comes as a new survey found (57 per cent) of doctors report seeing an increase in patients turning to private care.
A further 8 in 10 doctors said they believe the state of healthcare will deteriorate post-pandemic, according to the survey of almost 500 doctors by Medscape UK
Well klaus shwab wants us dead and cold and hungry this winter, so rolling blackouts it is, that’ll wipe out the weak “useless eaters” klaus so despises
If they’re war rooms, can they not be supported/set up/managed by the Ministry of Defence?
Save the NHS budget for spending on training/recruiting/retaining nurses, and help Lizz achieve her promise of increasing defence spending to 3%of GDP.
Didn’t they have all this for Covid and never use it? Just more propaganda
The more sky news uses “Breaking news” the less important that make it seem.
They over use it so much to the point now where actually severe stories like this are seen as whatever so thanks for that idiots.
NHS faces £90bn bill for ‘staggering’ maternity blunders
The Telegraph reveals the details ahead of a ‘harrowing’ report into failings at
I have a baby due in January, should I be worried? Is there anything I can do?
There were talks trying to push my department for volunteers to work additional days a week next month to prop up another department that’s also struggling. The crux is we already have people starting to burn out from the workload this month in combination of understaffing, tighter budgets and increased workload. I fear this winter might be a tipping point for NHS workers looking for greener pastures.
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My other half already left working what he originally trained for in another hospital due to similar reasons and no prospects on career progression (funding for further training dried up). He’s now on higher banding in research than working the frontlines where there’s still a higher need of what he did.
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Gonna need a lot of war rooms when your staff come out on strike.
War rooms. Warm banks. Blackouts. Endless strikes.
What a mess this country will be in this winter.
Call me naive but I’m sure all of this is only for worst case scenarios. If it’s like the last few winter’s we’ll be OK but remember a few years back when water pipes were bursting with the ‘beast from the east’? It was absaolutely freezing
Ah found a new scaremongering angle have we? LOL. Nice try.
And pray tell, how much cash is being syphoned off to pay for ‘consultants’ to organise the ‘data driven war rooms’.
No, on second thoughts, don’t bother. Just fuck off with your scare mongering press releases.
If they’re hot war rooms then I’ll go, it’ll save me freezing my arse off at home.
I wonder if we’ll get some dancing tik tok vids from inside them, because that’s what you do at times of health crisis, right?
Too few staff and increased risks from people being unable to afford food and heating. All you need is a bad flu season on top of that for things to get very nasty. The hospital I work at has consistently had fewer than ten beds across two sites for the last few weeks, a bad winter would mean inhumane waiting times to get into hospital and a severe risk to life.
The oldies who this will affect most only have themselves to blame. Stop voting tory
I thought this said ‘warm rooms’ for the energy crisis but my hopes were dashed.
Here we go. Not only is there the rise of another covid sub-strain, but there are other factors at play here that will undoubtably feed into some terrible situations this winter.
Firstly, due to the increased cost of energy, you’ll have folks not turning on the heat as much. If we have a cold winter, this could lead to older and more vulnerable people sitting in very cold and damp conditions. Which, aren’t great for avoiding pneumonia and generally feeling “well”. This, coupled with the new apparently powerful covid strain would be enough to see stress on the NHS. Also, add in the fact that nurses (as well as doctors) are strained, underpaid and aren’t getting any support from the gov. Apparently, they are well paid enough?? Obviously, any future nurse strikes will compound these factors.
This will affect the already poor statistics that some may face already just from catching the flu/pneumonia/covid in older and more vulnerable states.
Hopefully, these “war room” tactics will get ahead of the curve and do their intended function.
However, I can only feel that this round of politics this year has added a terrible factor to the mix. Where, we may see some worrying hospitalisation/death statistics. Heres hoping to a warm winter.
Hopefully this is just a negative outlook.
What about the Nightingales?
The sham Test and Trace?
Yet another Tory truck stop for more money to magically disappear.
The NHS won’t need war rooms: they’ll need to convert more wards into morgues, because millions will probably die due to cold and hunger alone (thanks to the Tories).
The last two years were in a pandemic, how can it possibly get worse than that?!
Was introduced to a new concept today at the hospital I work at; it’s called ‘onboarding’ apparently which is a fairly innocuous term for what turns out to be a new policy whereby new patients can be transferred to the ward before the previous one has actually been discharged.
One lady went to use the toilet and found somebody else had been put in her bed this morning, and she couldn’t even go and sit in our day room because they’ve filled the day room with beds too. Naturally most of these people aren’t actually unwell, they’re just waiting for social care/their families to actually look after them, but even so it’s ridiculous.
I feel so fucking guilty just putting heating on for my kids so I barely do but we aren’t in the depths of winter right now and I’m getting worried.
We are in debt with Eon like most now and I just don’t know what we are going to do, I’ve job interview for a pretty good job, pay will help us and I’m hoping I’ll get it. I’ll be able to pay the bills but I’ll hardly see my kids.
Literally hate this country atm.
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I can’t find it now, but someone gathered together all the headlines from this time of year for the past 20 odd years and they’re all “NHS at breaking point!” “24 hours to save the NHS!” “NHS FACES TOUGHEST WINTER EVER!!!”
It’s as regular as the “I took my kids to a shitty Christmas wonderland in Coventry,” stories.
And before we start, I am aware the Tories have fucked the NHS over and it is indeed on its arse at the moment, and things are very bad.
Half the beds will be occupied. 90% of the beds are already occupied, what are you doing to empty beds? After you sacked all the care staff. War rooms-this is happening daily anyway, MH support is needed and ambulance support is needed but they are both at capacity, so how will you increase their workload in a few weeks. Bunch of bollocks, it’s been set up to fail and will fall flat on its face this winter.
The Times
Living Room Health
Private health clinics are offering walk-in MRI scans for £250 as the NHS waiting list hit 7 million.
It comes as a new survey found (57 per cent) of doctors report seeing an increase in patients turning to private care.
A further 8 in 10 doctors said they believe the state of healthcare will deteriorate post-pandemic, according to the survey of almost 500 doctors by Medscape UK
Well klaus shwab wants us dead and cold and hungry this winter, so rolling blackouts it is, that’ll wipe out the weak “useless eaters” klaus so despises
If they’re war rooms, can they not be supported/set up/managed by the Ministry of Defence?
Save the NHS budget for spending on training/recruiting/retaining nurses, and help Lizz achieve her promise of increasing defence spending to 3%of GDP.
Didn’t they have all this for Covid and never use it? Just more propaganda
The more sky news uses “Breaking news” the less important that make it seem.
They over use it so much to the point now where actually severe stories like this are seen as whatever so thanks for that idiots.
NHS faces £90bn bill for ‘staggering’ maternity blunders
The Telegraph reveals the details ahead of a ‘harrowing’ report into failings at
I have a baby due in January, should I be worried? Is there anything I can do?
There were talks trying to push my department for volunteers to work additional days a week next month to prop up another department that’s also struggling. The crux is we already have people starting to burn out from the workload this month in combination of understaffing, tighter budgets and increased workload. I fear this winter might be a tipping point for NHS workers looking for greener pastures.
​
My other half already left working what he originally trained for in another hospital due to similar reasons and no prospects on career progression (funding for further training dried up). He’s now on higher banding in research than working the frontlines where there’s still a higher need of what he did.