Oh my word!
This was a thread from April 2020! @DrSimonHodes #TeamGP
This lack of triaging of patients was noticed and raised from the start…
Why have GPs been cut out the loop with covid testing and triage?
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This was a thread from April 2020! @DrSimonHodes #TeamGP
This lack of triaging of patients was noticed and raised from the start…
Why have GPs been cut out the loop with covid testing and triage?
Rant follows 1/n
https://twitter.com/DrSimonHodes/status/1255619596079575047
How can you have a pandemic response with NO Triage…seriously!!! @WHO
And if you get into the thread above you will see the comments are an echo of today “bizarre” “ideology led”
And a complete lack of frontline clinical representation on the government’s expert panel.
And if you get into the thread above you will see the comments are an echo of today “bizarre” “ideology led”
And a complete lack of frontline clinical representation on the government’s expert panel.
And it is the same with the parliamentarians reporting on the pandemic response…no clinical experts at all, or literacy, as far as I can tell…
https://twitter.com/danielgoyal/status/1447938898043326464
So, we - us on the frontline, risking ourselves and our families, facing a deadly new pathogen - had to try and manage a new disease with:
No Triage
No follow-up service
And an actual reduction in bed capacity.
Lunacy. The UK will go down in history as a cautionary tale.
No Triage
No follow-up service
And an actual reduction in bed capacity.
Lunacy. The UK will go down in history as a cautionary tale.
And be very, very clear: the reason you - the public - could not see your GP was due to government policy backed with emergency powers.
Why?
The cynic in me fears it was to control the testing contracts, but it was probably another reason…
Why?
The cynic in me fears it was to control the testing contracts, but it was probably another reason…
The governments solution to the Triage problem was an untested online Symptom Checker.
The 111 Covid Symptom Checker. Ask a computer if you need medical help. Not a phone call, not even when positive, not even if vulnerable.
It failed dismally:
informatics.bmj.com/content/28/1/e…
The 111 Covid Symptom Checker. Ask a computer if you need medical help. Not a phone call, not even when positive, not even if vulnerable.
It failed dismally:
informatics.bmj.com/content/28/1/e…
We ask the question why has the UKs mortality been so high?
No doubt letting it rip and herd immunity were highly culpable.
But failing to triage patients and failing to create more space to treat thousands of new patients during a pandemic is a level of negligence/incompetence
No doubt letting it rip and herd immunity were highly culpable.
But failing to triage patients and failing to create more space to treat thousands of new patients during a pandemic is a level of negligence/incompetence
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