What do you mean by “get organised” there @Lizzie27??
A large factor in sick days currently is waiting the day or two it takes to receive your PCR result before being allowed back to work if it’s negative. There is also a pocket of staff who cannot obtain childcare when their child is isolating. Although there will always be the odd person who fakes a sickness, my intel is that most workers do not want to let their colleagues and patients down and are no more concerned about catching Covid at work than before. In fact wave one caused a huge amount of anxiety about ‘the unknown’ and that has diminished now as we know more, have good supplies of PPE etc. Most of us put the service first and have to carry the worry of being in contact with the virus and potentially taking it home to loved ones. We’ve had a horrible time but I don’t think people are pulling a cheeky week off.
Remember that the NHS is trying to catch up on the genet backlog. More complex cases are often referred to London, because of the delays a lot more cases are more complicated than they would have been.
I think he has presented the case for us all being as careful as we possibly can very clearly and because he is based in Sydney the message is stripped out of how incompetent the govt. is etc.
If one person tests positive in a hospital, or anywhere else where staff are working at close quarters, there's a huge knock on effect. Some of our hospitals up here are at a very critical stage because of it. I know I have a magic wand, but I'm afraid I can't 'magic replacements up' out of nowhere, and neither can they. My younger daughter is in the same position. If one of them tests positive, it could mean their branch being closed because of it, because we have to isolate here regardless of vaccination status, and there's a limit to how many workers they can find instantly.
I sincerely hope you and your co workers are ok @AuntyRach. It's been a hellish time, and it's the feeling of it never ending that makes it even worse.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I am incandescent with rage that people who continue to party and generally ignore common sense precautions, then have the nerve to complain when hospital staff go off sick. It is far more common for those staff to continue working, when they should be off sick.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Thanks @didyw for posting that. There are so many things to read or watch with a similar message that it's easy to just think "Yes, I already know" and skip them. It's also helpful, as you say, that it's from 'somewhere else' so isn't layered with local political or other detail.
To respond to the fact that pretty much any person in a room, vaccinated or not, can and probably will catch Omicron if it's there (and statistically it increasingly is) with a dig suggesting that NHS workers are pulling a fast one or should have spent the summer creating spare capacity out of nowhere beggars belief. However, it smacks of Daily Fail mentality, so not worthy of further comment.
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
...and often when they are working @punkdoc, they're working more hours than they should, to fill in for those who are off sick too. That isn't good for anyone
I heard on the radio the other day, during a phone in, that a woman was refusing to be vaccinated because she was vegan [didn't believe how the vaccines had been created] and it 'didn't fit in with her lifestyle'. Words fail me...or at least, they do on this forum because I don't want to say what I really think and get banned. I wasn't so restrained at the time.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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I think he has presented the case for us all being as careful as we possibly can very clearly and because he is based in Sydney the message is stripped out of how incompetent the govt. is etc.
I know I have a magic wand, but I'm afraid I can't 'magic replacements up' out of nowhere, and neither can they.
My younger daughter is in the same position. If one of them tests positive, it could mean their branch being closed because of it, because we have to isolate here regardless of vaccination status, and there's a limit to how many workers they can find instantly.
I sincerely hope you and your co workers are ok @AuntyRach. It's been a hellish time, and it's the feeling of it never ending that makes it even worse.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
It is far more common for those staff to continue working, when they should be off sick.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
To respond to the fact that pretty much any person in a room, vaccinated or not, can and probably will catch Omicron if it's there (and statistically it increasingly is) with a dig suggesting that NHS workers are pulling a fast one or should have spent the summer creating spare capacity out of nowhere beggars belief. However, it smacks of Daily Fail mentality, so not worthy of further comment.
That isn't good for anyone
I heard on the radio the other day, during a phone in, that a woman was refusing to be vaccinated because she was vegan [didn't believe how the vaccines had been created] and it 'didn't fit in with her lifestyle'. Words fail me...or at least, they do on this forum because I don't want to say what I really think and get banned.
I wasn't so restrained at the time.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...