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"I work in a specialist cancer centre.
I have seen patients pulled off chemo regimens half way through or not started at all because of Covid... otherwise curable patients now terminal.
The cancer tsunami coming will make Covid look like a walk in the park...
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"I work in a specialist cancer centre.
I have seen patients pulled off chemo regimens half way through or not started at all because of Covid... otherwise curable patients now terminal.
The cancer tsunami coming will make Covid look like a walk in the park...
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2/ "I work in a specialist cancer centre.
I have seen patients who have been pulled off chemo regimens half way through or not started on them at all because of Covid.
Unsurprisingly their cancers have progressed and in some cases they are now sadly palliative.
I have seen patients who have been pulled off chemo regimens half way through or not started on them at all because of Covid.
Unsurprisingly their cancers have progressed and in some cases they are now sadly palliative.
3/ "Lots of late diagnoses are now coming through - patients that would have been curable are now terminal.
Lots of DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) forms in patient notes that would never have even been discussed before this mass hysteria took hold.
Lots of DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) forms in patient notes that would never have even been discussed before this mass hysteria took hold.
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"I volunteered for the Nightingale Hospitals but was never needed...
...but I’ve watched patients become so unwell due to being too frightened to come into hospital or due to treatments being delayed…
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"I volunteered for the Nightingale Hospitals but was never needed...
...but I’ve watched patients become so unwell due to being too frightened to come into hospital or due to treatments being delayed…
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2/ "I've been a nurse for ten years and now work as a specialist in heart failure.
At the start of Covid we had to suspend all outpatient services, a few of my team stayed to perform telephone clinics and man the phones for patients but the rest of us went up to the wards.
At the start of Covid we had to suspend all outpatient services, a few of my team stayed to perform telephone clinics and man the phones for patients but the rest of us went up to the wards.
3/ "We created a new coronary care unit staffed by specialists so that the current unit could be turned into high dependency to allow it to take more ventilated patients.
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"Poor process meant many clean wards became infectious as patients were moved before test results back…
Track and trace app forbidden in the hospital for fear of whole teams isolating…."
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"Poor process meant many clean wards became infectious as patients were moved before test results back…
Track and trace app forbidden in the hospital for fear of whole teams isolating…."
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2/ "Throughout the pandemic the guidance on PPE changed several times, not for our safety but due to supply and what was available at the time.
Rest rooms and canteen occupancy cut by 75% and it was weeks before they opened up any other places to have lunch (one was the morgue!)
Rest rooms and canteen occupancy cut by 75% and it was weeks before they opened up any other places to have lunch (one was the morgue!)
3/ "People went outside to eat and were disciplined for not being distanced enough. I saw other nurses perched on window ledges in the corridor trying to eat.
During the heat of the summer fans were banned and people were fainting and dehydrating due to being wrapped in plastic.
During the heat of the summer fans were banned and people were fainting and dehydrating due to being wrapped in plastic.
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"I'm a paramedic. The lockdown backlog has risen to impossible levels.
I honestly think it will come to the point where there is simply no treatment available + patients suffer at home or die: not the v. elderly but the younger + fitter who are just told ‘no’…
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"I'm a paramedic. The lockdown backlog has risen to impossible levels.
I honestly think it will come to the point where there is simply no treatment available + patients suffer at home or die: not the v. elderly but the younger + fitter who are just told ‘no’…
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2/ "I’ve been a paramedic for seven years and have worked on ambulances as well as in walk-in centres and out-of-hours services.
The Covid restrictions have meant that there is an enormous backlog of patients who still need to be seen.
The Covid restrictions have meant that there is an enormous backlog of patients who still need to be seen.
3/ "Last summer this was bad enough but after the second lockdown over winter it has risen to impossible levels.
The local A&E has sensibly stopped seeing minor problems and instead sends them down into the main part of town to the walk-in centre.
The local A&E has sensibly stopped seeing minor problems and instead sends them down into the main part of town to the walk-in centre.
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"Covid took precedence… this led to unnecessary deaths.
I tried to raise concerns but was given many verbal warnings, pulled into the offices and spoken to about 'going above my pay grade' and whistleblowing…
Too many patients were failed...
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"Covid took precedence… this led to unnecessary deaths.
I tried to raise concerns but was given many verbal warnings, pulled into the offices and spoken to about 'going above my pay grade' and whistleblowing…
Too many patients were failed...
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2/ "I have been working in the NHS for many years and always loved what I do however the last 18 months has shown me that patient care isn’t at the forefront.
I specialise in Neurology, working with pre-op and post-op care...
I specialise in Neurology, working with pre-op and post-op care...
3/ "...however the amount of patients in my department through the last 18 months has been way below the expected rate.
The reason for this was because Covid took precedence so those patients who needed neurological treatment were pushed lower...
The reason for this was because Covid took precedence so those patients who needed neurological treatment were pushed lower...
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"In its impact on mental health provision in this country, Covid strategy has been a moral disgrace…
We have enacted by diktat a serious moral failure of state, impacting the most vulnerable people.
I am deeply ashamed to have been part of it..."
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"In its impact on mental health provision in this country, Covid strategy has been a moral disgrace…
We have enacted by diktat a serious moral failure of state, impacting the most vulnerable people.
I am deeply ashamed to have been part of it..."
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"I work in mental health in England.
The last year has been the worst by far of my entire career.
This has not been because of Covid itself but because of the obsessional focus on Covid related risks at the expense of all else...
The last year has been the worst by far of my entire career.
This has not been because of Covid itself but because of the obsessional focus on Covid related risks at the expense of all else...
"I strongly believe that the public health interventions we have had to implement have caused severe, avoidable, harm, and that we have enacted by diktat a serious moral failure of state, impacting the most vulnerable people...
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"I’ve been a GP in the NHS since 1986.
I've seen a handful of patients with serious C19 symptoms but 100s of patients suffering due to lockdown.
Cancers diagnosed too late, heart disease due to delays. The list is endless. This is no service. It’s a disgrace."
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"I’ve been a GP in the NHS since 1986.
I've seen a handful of patients with serious C19 symptoms but 100s of patients suffering due to lockdown.
Cancers diagnosed too late, heart disease due to delays. The list is endless. This is no service. It’s a disgrace."
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"I’ve worked as a GP in the NHS since 1986.
I have been horrified at the way the government have handled the pandemic.
Stopping me seeing my patients face-to-face overnight has been a nightmare for me and my patients...
I have been horrified at the way the government have handled the pandemic.
Stopping me seeing my patients face-to-face overnight has been a nightmare for me and my patients...
"With no training as managers retreated to working from home, no laptop for me to work from home, poor IT systems which weren’t fit for purpose, and weren’t up to telemedicine and elderly patients unable to cope with video consultations or sending photos in...
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"The NHS is being used to frighten people and hold them hostage in their own homes...
We are supposed to be there to help working class people, not wave a finger at them and police every aspect of their lives..."
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"The NHS is being used to frighten people and hold them hostage in their own homes...
We are supposed to be there to help working class people, not wave a finger at them and police every aspect of their lives..."
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"In my experience, Public Health Wales has been almost completely side-lined.
The government have taken almost complete control of pandemic response with confusing, arbitrary edicts with barely any supporting evidence to back them up...
The government have taken almost complete control of pandemic response with confusing, arbitrary edicts with barely any supporting evidence to back them up...
"I feel awful about how the NHS as an organisation is being used to frighten people and hold them hostage in their own homes...
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"I work front line in two areas of the NHS…
From March 2020 all previous evidence-based science changed overnight…
We had patients die of things they had not sought help early enough for..."
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"I work front line in two areas of the NHS…
From March 2020 all previous evidence-based science changed overnight…
We had patients die of things they had not sought help early enough for..."
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"I work front line in two areas of the NHS and from March 2020 when all previous evidence-based science changed overnight I knew there was a serious issue greater than that of a new strand of a Coronavirus...
"Lateral thinking dictates that economic recession damages public health to a far more significant degree than Coronavirus.
The impact in both jobs was instantly recognisable.
Protocols became rapidly absurd in terms of accuracy of PCR tests and who was tested and when...
The impact in both jobs was instantly recognisable.
Protocols became rapidly absurd in terms of accuracy of PCR tests and who was tested and when...
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"The reduction in access for NHS Dentistry must be explained…
From 25 March to 7 June Dentists were fobbing off patients and dishing out antibiotics like Smarties…"
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"The reduction in access for NHS Dentistry must be explained…
From 25 March to 7 June Dentists were fobbing off patients and dishing out antibiotics like Smarties…"
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"The reduction in access for NHS Dentistry must be explained.
NHSE + PHE forced the closure of ALL dental practices at end of Mar 2020 with only a handful of practices able to see patients face to face during early April building eventually to about 600 practices nationally...
NHSE + PHE forced the closure of ALL dental practices at end of Mar 2020 with only a handful of practices able to see patients face to face during early April building eventually to about 600 practices nationally...
"It was only on 8th June that all practices could re-open and see patients face to face.
So from 25 March to 7 June Dentists were triaging (fobbing off) patients and dishing out antibiotics like smarties under what was billed ‘Triple A’: Advice, Analgesics, Antibiotics...
So from 25 March to 7 June Dentists were triaging (fobbing off) patients and dishing out antibiotics like smarties under what was billed ‘Triple A’: Advice, Analgesics, Antibiotics...
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"I was reported to NHS England for highlighting potentially missed cancer diagnoses...
Waiting list numbers are now so staggering it’s hard to see how normal services can ever be recovered..."
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"I was reported to NHS England for highlighting potentially missed cancer diagnoses...
Waiting list numbers are now so staggering it’s hard to see how normal services can ever be recovered..."
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"I work for NHS England in the analytical team and have been at the heart of the monitoring of the NHS response to Covid right from the very beginning.
There has been a prevailing narrative throughout the last year plus, and no-one openly challenges that...
There has been a prevailing narrative throughout the last year plus, and no-one openly challenges that...
"After one colleague collaborated in the writing of an article published in the Telegraph back in October, we were openly warned not to speak to the press or write anything on social media as this would constitute a breach of policy...
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Recovery wants to make sure all voices are heard so the management of Covid is balanced and proportionate.
Many NHS staff have joined Recovery.
They tell us that despite the heroism of many NHS workers, incompetent Govt and management...
Recovery wants to make sure all voices are heard so the management of Covid is balanced and proportionate.
Many NHS staff have joined Recovery.
They tell us that despite the heroism of many NHS workers, incompetent Govt and management...
...mean our health service is failing.
But we know many NHS staff are frightened to speak out.
They have been warned not to. Threatened, even.
This is very dangerous, because without urgent action to fix the NHS crisis now, patients will suffer and many will die needlessly...
But we know many NHS staff are frightened to speak out.
They have been warned not to. Threatened, even.
This is very dangerous, because without urgent action to fix the NHS crisis now, patients will suffer and many will die needlessly...
...because the situation is frightening.
Shockingly, Health Secretary Matt Hancock last week revealed that there are now not 5 million - but 12 MILLION - people on NHS waiting lists...
lbc.co.uk/news/nhs-facin…
Shockingly, Health Secretary Matt Hancock last week revealed that there are now not 5 million - but 12 MILLION - people on NHS waiting lists...
lbc.co.uk/news/nhs-facin…
