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If you want to see what the NHS "coping" looks like, please do watch this piece from me, @jasmin_dyer & @LondonLuke in Northwick Park Hospital.
It shows a remarkable staff and service that is nonetheless on the very edge.
@LNWH_NHS https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0945s7t
It shows a remarkable staff and service that is nonetheless on the very edge.
@LNWH_NHS https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0945s7t
So much fear of the NHS being "overwhelmed"- as so many members of staff made clear to me, this is a misunderstanding. The service already is overwhelmed- it copes by transforming itself to devote much of its activity to Covid, for which there is and will be a very real cost.
That's the price we're paying, as one consultant says, for "losing control of the virus this winter"- as a result he says, people have lost, are losing and will lose their lives.
For anyone doubting that, or the idea that our health service is not at its limit-watch the film.
For anyone doubting that, or the idea that our health service is not at its limit-watch the film.
At a time when there’s a lot of satisfaction the UK appears to be doing well on the vaccine front and (good) we really can’t afford to look away from the crisis in our midst right now, our very high fatality rate and scrutinise how we got here. That includes decisions...
...made about the NHS years ago (say about its resources) and decisions made about restrictions and Covid policy months and weeks ago too.
We are so grateful to the fantastic team @LNWH_NHS for opening their doors and letting us spend so much time with them. They’re the best of the best.
For those who’d prefer, you can also watch it on YouTube here:
If you can please do share the piece on your social media platforms. There are still too many people under the impression there is no crisis in our hospitals, or who are suggesting they’re not already overwhelmed. For the reasons I explain, they are.
Astounding stat from King’s Fund which puts pay to idea NHS is coping. Number of people waiting over a year for routine planned ops (like knee or hip replacements) is over 190,000. Kings Fund analyst says he’d expect that number to be around 1500. Target is zero.
