“We're not just running out of cubicles; we're running out of corridors.”
“It feels like [Winter] is going to be armageddon, to be honest. We’re already full.”
This entire article is frankly horrifying. And yet, nothing is being done to mitigate it.
independent.co.uk/news/health/nh…
Analysis of NHS data by the RCEM, shows that from Jun-Sep 2025, over HALF A MILLION patients had an A&E stay of over 12 hours from their time of arrival in England.
This is MORE than the entire winter of 2021-22, during which the UK experienced one of the worst Covid waves.
In the latest weekly figures, there were 188 people Covid deaths across the UK.
188 Covid deaths. In just one week.
3,866 Covid deaths so far this year.
(H/t @gwladwr)
@gwladwr Covid is causing far more disruption than flu at the moment, hospitalising more than THREE TIMES as many people…
@gwladwr …and this is probably amplified considerably by the govt’s irresponsible decision to hugely restrict access to Covid vaccines this autumn.
Hardly anyone is eligible anymore, even many of those who are clinically vulnerable.
As I’ve said all along, this will cost lives.
@gwladwr We do have the tools available to blunt the impact of winter surges of airborne viruses like Covid & flu.
Many recommendations have been voiced by experts at the Covid Inquiry about what *should* be done to reduce airborne transmission in hospitals…
…but is anyone listening?
@gwladwr If you’d like to find out more about the flawed chain of decisions which led to the utterly inadequate infection control guidance we have in hospitals today, please see my megathread below which walks you through some of the shocking evidence from the Covid Inquiry (module 3) ⬇️
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