Breaking the NHS (and its staff) is why they’re so slow to lockdown. They want the NHS to be seen as unfit for purpose.
A lot of us are already there at breaking point and burn out. They’re saying we don’t want the NHS to be overwhelmed but it already is. I haven’t attended one safely staffed shift since I qualified 2 years ago. So many are off sick with stress. So many have caught covid and are isolating for 10 days. So many have left the profession. The staff to patient ratios are often unsafe. And this isn’t even adult ICU, this is NICU. I know some paeds nurses who have floated to Adult ITU to help during these peak times and they’ve said it’s a living nightmare, absolutely horrible. I can’t even begin to imagine how the Adult ITU nurses are feeling right now. It’s already overwhelmed.
NHS failing would be perfect fuel to start having morons believe it needs selling off.
I was admitted to hospital a couple of weeks before Omicron struck. It was already well past crisis point then with patents “housed” on gurneys in disused offices for days (I only did 26 hours as I was quite critical and was triaged out to an observation “ward” for 3 days before being moved to acute cardiac) due to a lack of space in the ED and on the wards.
How the already stretched staff are going to cope now, god only knows. Everybody who I came across was doing an amazing job in very obviously terrible circumstances. How they keep going is beyond me.
This is Johnsons failing. He, his party and those who have chosen to support them are to blame. They have deliberately manufactured this crisis.
Maybe it is time to rethink our reactions.
We have a set up to combat the likes of Alpha and Delta. Omicron is very different. Infections will be far higher but the risk to health is much lower.
We are currently crippling ourselves with this 10 day quarantine. If something has to give perhaps it is that. Staff from every sector are out of the game because of the quarantine rules, not because they are extremely ill.
Funny that, considering my appointment at the QE last week was relatively quiet and 13 ambulances were parked up with staff having fags and eating in the vans at 10:00am.
Every time they say this it’s BS. Scaremongering BS.
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Breaking the NHS (and its staff) is why they’re so slow to lockdown. They want the NHS to be seen as unfit for purpose.
A lot of us are already there at breaking point and burn out. They’re saying we don’t want the NHS to be overwhelmed but it already is. I haven’t attended one safely staffed shift since I qualified 2 years ago. So many are off sick with stress. So many have caught covid and are isolating for 10 days. So many have left the profession. The staff to patient ratios are often unsafe. And this isn’t even adult ICU, this is NICU. I know some paeds nurses who have floated to Adult ITU to help during these peak times and they’ve said it’s a living nightmare, absolutely horrible. I can’t even begin to imagine how the Adult ITU nurses are feeling right now. It’s already overwhelmed.
NHS failing would be perfect fuel to start having morons believe it needs selling off.
I was admitted to hospital a couple of weeks before Omicron struck. It was already well past crisis point then with patents “housed” on gurneys in disused offices for days (I only did 26 hours as I was quite critical and was triaged out to an observation “ward” for 3 days before being moved to acute cardiac) due to a lack of space in the ED and on the wards.
How the already stretched staff are going to cope now, god only knows. Everybody who I came across was doing an amazing job in very obviously terrible circumstances. How they keep going is beyond me.
This is Johnsons failing. He, his party and those who have chosen to support them are to blame. They have deliberately manufactured this crisis.
Maybe it is time to rethink our reactions.
We have a set up to combat the likes of Alpha and Delta. Omicron is very different. Infections will be far higher but the risk to health is much lower.
We are currently crippling ourselves with this 10 day quarantine. If something has to give perhaps it is that. Staff from every sector are out of the game because of the quarantine rules, not because they are extremely ill.
Funny that, considering my appointment at the QE last week was relatively quiet and 13 ambulances were parked up with staff having fags and eating in the vans at 10:00am.
Every time they say this it’s BS. Scaremongering BS.