@AuntyRach I haven't seen the programme ( luckily perhaps ) but I imagine many of us were affected by the Covid pandemic - even if only from a mental as opposed to a physical aspect - which still lasts today. I can't begin to imagine what you dealt with on a daily basis as a frontline NHS worker - hats off to you and your colleagues
Indeed @philippasmith2 … I will feel forever indebted to the brave NHS staff who just got on with the job of caring for so many in the face of such huge difficulties and at risk to themselves.
Another instance of never was so much owed by so many to so few … even if there were more of ‘the few’ this time 🙏 💙
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We are one episode behind, watched the first one last night. The old maxim springs to mind. Fail to prepare, prepare to fail. The continual reorganisation, the interference from the bean counters " oh we don't need all these , beds. space , staff, PPE etc etc." Has a lot to answer for.
We are one episode behind, watched the first one last night. The old maxim springs to mind. Fail to prepare, prepare to fail. The continual reorganisation, the interference from the bean counters " oh we don't need all these , beds. space , staff, PPE etc etc." Has a lot to answer for.
The UK was under prepared, as was most of the rest of the world. There is a balance to be made between having the full capacity to cope with a pandemic which might happen once in a hundred years, and the financial cost of equipment which is never used and ends up being thrown away. The Government was criticised for not being ready but then criticised again later for having too much stock.
The hospitals don't have enough capacity to cope with a normal winter, and haven't had for some years. Mostly due to the reasons I gave above. There were 2 big "reorganisations" in my time in the NHS (22 years) in the following 20 years there were FIVE MORE. I could go on at length but much has been said before and it won't change anything.
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I can't begin to imagine what you dealt with on a daily basis as a frontline NHS worker - hats off to you and your colleagues
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
”To this day, if I ask any colleagues what their covid experience was like, almost without exception, within a minute or two they start to cry.”
Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
The continual reorganisation, the interference from the bean counters " oh we don't need all these , beds. space , staff, PPE etc etc." Has a lot to answer for.
well that’s a belt and braces approach I guess 😮
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
The UK was under prepared, as was most of the rest of the world. There is a balance to be made between having the full capacity to cope with a pandemic which might happen once in a hundred years, and the financial cost of equipment which is never used and ends up being thrown away. The Government was criticised for not being ready but then criticised again later for having too much stock.