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Compared to January 2020, this January ICUs across the UK have had to expand by an extra 2251 beds. Most ICUs have 16 beds, and this is the equivalent of building 141 new ICUs 1/5 https://twitter.com/ICS_updates/status/1359200874384551946
To staff these ICU beds safely, every DAY we would need2/5:
But we don't have these staff, and staff from other areas of the hospital have stepped up to help out. Together, NHS staff on ICUs are doing over a million hours a week of extra work. 3/5
We need to ensure that at the end of pandemic, we return to safe staffing levels, to ensure patient safety is prioritized. 4/5
This document is about how we return to normal in a phased fashion, protecting patient safety, and staff wellbeing. Many of the staff are suffering from PTSD and Moral Injury and unless we treat , we wont have them as colleagues and patients wont have them to treat them. 5/5
