Thread by @tedtalksoph

" Protect the NHS, Save lives"

1/ 🔵  The Government ordered discharge of thousands of untested hospital patients into care homes and imposition of blanket DNARs causing thousands of excess deaths.

2 / 🔵  NHS waiting list hits 14 year record high of 4.7 million people

3 / 🔵 Over 300,000 missed referrals for cancer treatments.

4 / 🔵 12 times more people are dying from cancer than Covid - as experts warn treatment backlog will become 'collateral damage' of the pandemic.

5 / 🔵 ONS data comfirms that of the excess deaths in England and Wales this year over last year’s data to the week ending 1May,only one-third can be explained by COVID-19.30,000 more deaths than would normally be expected,only 10,000 have had COVID-19 specified on the death cert

6 / 🔵 In the first six months after lockdown, from March to November 2020, London Ambulance Service recorded 15,541 calls relating to suicide or attempted suicide. That compares to 11,703 calls over the same period in 2019.

7 / 🔵 Suicide attempts by elderly people may have increased sharply during the coronavirus crisis because of depression and anxiety from their social isolation, says the Royal College of Psychiatrists. In one acute trust, there was a potential six-fold rise during the lockdown.

8/ 🔵 Do not resuscitate’ notices given to Covid patients with learning disabilities.