Unfortunately the statistics can't be used like that. Many hospitals don't t admit acutely unwell patients and the vast majority of hospitals can't look after ventilated patients. As of this morning Sheffield has 10 ventilated COVID patients, considerably less than last winter, but still 50% of its total normal capacity, which means that much work that would normally require an ICU bed cannot be done.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Unfortunately the statistics can't be used like that. Many hospitals don't t admit acutely unwell patients and the vast majority of hospitals can't look after ventilated patients. As of this morning Sheffield has 10 ventilated COVID patients, considerably less than last winter, but still 50% of its total normal capacity, which means that much work that would normally require an ICU bed cannot be done.
In the past my father has had to have a couple of emergency ops, each requiring a few days in ICU in the Northern General. I am crossing my fingers, toes and everything else that he doesn't need another one any time soon.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
I was surprised that our hospital wanted to admit my fiancé for covid when they had no intention of giving him oxygen ( he didn’t need it so why admit him?) I would have thought they would have had enough to do but I have given up expecting any degree of competence or care from that particular hospital.
Woke up late following the Pfizer booster, muscles achy and a headache but no overnight fever (which I had with both AZ jabs.) Took paracetamol and now headache gone and feel just about normal. Give me that anytime versus the potential consequences of not being vaccinated!
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
Can I ask what is the current situation with the NHS and ambulance services? For a couple of weeks, around the end of October/beginning of November, there were reports on the main news about issues with ambulances queueing and the NHS running short of beds nationally. Was that a temporary thing or overblown reporting? And is the number of current Covid hospitalisations and long term stay (presumably if circa 700 per day and 7k in hospital, it's around a 10 day stay?) sustainable given we have only just started to hit the winter weather and Christmas mixing?
How can anyone make a decision when the info isn't there? If the scientists aren't getting the airtime anymore, all you end up with is the spun version. So people will mix, thinking that's what the science is saying because the gov has also got the mantra of 'we follow the science' into people heads - the gov says it's ok to party, ergo the science must as well.
You might very well have, @punkdoc ! The only people I spoke with directly were the nurses, and a young (compared to me!) nurse practitioner about changing medication because the morphine was giving him bad hallucinations. He was very helpful and changed it to one of the synthetic opiates straight away.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
@steveTu, sadly true and still continuing, but was not rare before COVID either. Ageing population placing much higher demands on the service, coupled with increasing difficulty discharging patients to social care.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
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Many hospitals don't t admit acutely unwell patients and the vast majority of hospitals can't look after ventilated patients.
As of this morning Sheffield has 10 ventilated COVID patients, considerably less than last winter, but still 50% of its total normal capacity, which means that much work that would normally require an ICU bed cannot be done.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
In the past my father has had to have a couple of emergency ops, each requiring a few days in ICU in the Northern General. I am crossing my fingers, toes and everything else that he doesn't need another one any time soon.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border