This is what an 'overwhelmed NHS' looks like. We must not look away | Coronavirus | The Guardian
The final stage, which London is now approaching, is where patient care is not just compromised but cannot be delivered. This won’t be dramatic and public – theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
The final stage, which London is now approaching, is where patient care is not just compromised but cannot be delivered. This won’t be dramatic and public – theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
you won’t see patients refused entry to hospital or bodies on the street. It will take the form of doctors being forced to make impossible decisions about which patient can best benefit from a single spare ICU bed when many need one,
“or how long to wait for a very sick patient to improve before having the conversation with the family about withdrawing care.”
These are dreadful decisions for doctors to have to make, about patients who might otherwise have survived. We may never know how many, but we will be able to count and honour the dead.
“There will be thousands of traumatised doctors and nurses as well as grieving families.”
“There will be thousands of traumatised doctors and nurses as well as grieving families.”
“Any blame lies not with frontline staff, but with 10 years of NHS underfunding, with a government that has consistently delayed action against scientific advice, and with an aggressively infectious virus.”
In fact I think others, too, bear significant responsibility.
In fact I think others, too, bear significant responsibility.
Those people who tried to play down the severity and gravity of the virus and the sickness and deaths. Especially those with qualifications which suggest they should know much better
ALL those media platforms that provided airtime to so many of them, fertilising the conditions that encouraged far too many to break from good public health advice.
They too should be remembered and held to account to honour the sick, the dead, their families
They too should be remembered and held to account to honour the sick, the dead, their families
In Italy too, guidance on rationing care is being added to its pandemic planning
It seems that Italy too is being brought to its knees by obstruction from the Faragist 5 Star Movement that has objected to bailouts from the European Stability Mechanism
theguardian.com/world/2021/jan…
It seems that Italy too is being brought to its knees by obstruction from the Faragist 5 Star Movement that has objected to bailouts from the European Stability Mechanism
theguardian.com/world/2021/jan…
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