Before hospitals sort out appt or op backlogs, the most critical issue to tackle - urgently - is their toxic annual leave debt. They have been cancelling leave for months and this is one of the biggest errors made in disaster response.
Unless urgently addressed it will be a major factor in death and serious harm to both staff and patients. It also renders all other well-being or trauma focussed interventions meaningless.
I have always been shocked by the number of HR departments who seem to think there is an indefinite “disaster waiver” buried deep in law. That a judge in an employment tribunal or patient negligence case will throw the case out because it was “hero time”. There isn’t.
Similarly - The 48 hour directive opt out should have been seen as very short term fix and should not still be in place. Bluntly by this point of response staff should be working in a “normal” way and if anything, shifts should be shorter with more breaks and more rest between
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