High time. I had to have some lab work done at local hospital last week, in Canada, mind you. I think mask wearing is optional still, but I wore mine and they are still wanting people to sit 6 ft apart in waiting room, so that's a positive. And it seemed pretty airy. Still, they'll have to ramp up quickly when covid returns. And I say, returns, as I haven't heard of any recent cases on the island here.
How will you know when it's time to ramp up? Do you still have testing? In the UK we've discontinued nearly all testing, aren't really monitoring wastewater and even halted the Office for National Statistics prevalence survey. We have no idea what pathogens are going around or by how much. But we do have a high absence rates due to illness. Gatwick airport had to cancel about 70 flights today. The primary reason given was shortage of staff, followed by impact from flight conditions over continental Europe (not the other way around).
What pushed the BMA seems to be simply how many health care workers now have long term illness or outright disability...
Our problem isn't exactly that health care is given low priority. The problem is the type of priority it's getting. Our system can only be replaced with American style for-profit health care if the whole system collapses (people *love* the NHS)... so it's being pushed to collapse. The past dozen years of government health care policy only makes sense from that perspective.
High time. I had to have some lab work done at local hospital last week, in Canada, mind you. I think mask wearing is optional still, but I wore mine and they are still wanting people to sit 6 ft apart in waiting room, so that's a positive. And it seemed pretty airy. Still, they'll have to ramp up quickly when covid returns. And I say, returns, as I haven't heard of any recent cases on the island here.
How will you know when it's time to ramp up? Do you still have testing? In the UK we've discontinued nearly all testing, aren't really monitoring wastewater and even halted the Office for National Statistics prevalence survey. We have no idea what pathogens are going around or by how much. But we do have a high absence rates due to illness. Gatwick airport had to cancel about 70 flights today. The primary reason given was shortage of staff, followed by impact from flight conditions over continental Europe (not the other way around).
What pushed the BMA seems to be simply how many health care workers now have long term illness or outright disability...
Too bad healthcare isn’t given more priority.
Our problem isn't exactly that health care is given low priority. The problem is the type of priority it's getting. Our system can only be replaced with American style for-profit health care if the whole system collapses (people *love* the NHS)... so it's being pushed to collapse. The past dozen years of government health care policy only makes sense from that perspective.