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Rachel Clarke:
"We are drowning – in Covid patients, cancer patients, the patients on the waiting list backlogs, and the patients whose conditions have become infinitely more complex and harmful because they’ve been waiting so long.
There are (1/6)
Rachel Clarke:
"We are drowning – in Covid patients, cancer patients, the patients on the waiting list backlogs, and the patients whose conditions have become infinitely more complex and harmful because they’ve been waiting so long.
There are (1/6)
so few staff – and those left are so burned out and traumatised – that patients are inevitably being neglected. Oddly, NHS England seems to be following Sajid Javid’s lead in remaining silent about this. So much for NHS candour.
If patients matter, then being candid (2/6)
If patients matter, then being candid (2/6)
about Covid matters. The government must first be honest about the crisis conditions inside the NHS, and then commit to resourcing an urgent and long-term expansion of frontline staff, future-proofing the NHS against new waves of Covid. (3/6)
False narratives about the NHS “coping” are unhelpful and damaging. (4/6)
Is it any wonder our morale is at rock bottom when our lived experience – the world we inhabit daily – is sanitised, airbrushed and erased, and our political leaders – and much of the media – seem determined to ignore it and “move on”?" (5/6)
-Rachel Clarke, palliative care doctor & author of the extremely readable "Breathtaking" (6/6)
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