These pop up hospitals

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  1. Gordon Owen

    Gordon Owen Well-Known Member

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    Lots of coverage, not much for the manual workers that made it happen though.
     
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    The same BBC who were interviewing an army bloke the other day at Excel and showcasing the hard work they had done to help?

    I must get a different BBC to everyone else on here.
     
    TitusMagee, Apr 3, 2020
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    Dave from IT... Like that :) I must agree with you on this one. Clinical ward based staff only if one should have preference. We do work long shifts and it has been difficult to get hold of essential items.
    ##sorry that was meant for Gordon Owen
     
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  4. Gordon Owen

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    I was only listening today, a bit of BBC and global radio stations, only heard old Charlie giving everyone else the thumbs up.
     
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    They were doing their everyday jobs just like nurses do their everyday jobs. Don't think anyone wanted lauding for doing it.
    I'd like to think all those that contributed feel proud that they have made a contribution.
     
    havana red1, Apr 3, 2020
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  6. Gordon Owen

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    Agreed, l worked in payroll in the NHS for over 10 years, now in private sectors (I agreed with your posts on it, the other day by the way but l have more knowledge of that than anyone on here so wasn't getting involved) and l wouldn't have dared used my NHS ID to shop at Morrison from 8 or whatever. Leave it to those involved directly working the long hours.
     
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    Would imagine the Gurkhas who were in most of the news shots I saw, just saw it as doing there jobs
     
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    To be honest I felt a bit of a **** walking past the queue to get into asda on Wednesday morning for our allocated shopping. I do end up working at least 13 hours a shift though so it was difficult at the start with all the bulk buyers.
    Thanks for the acknowledgement regarding the other posts, appreciate it.
     
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    A lot of the coverage has been about how quickly this was built - surely that's the plaudits for the construction workers?
     
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    On a slightly related note. Every time. I saw images of the hospital being built I saw dozens of ambulances in the carpark and it's been bugging me for nearly 2 weeks now. What were they for?
     
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    I don’t agree without payroll then they don’t get paid, at the end of the day delivery of the health service requires a large team of people who aren’t just nurses or doctors.
     
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    The visible stuff can’t be any different from setting up an exhibition at the NEC?
    It’s not a miracle, its concentrated electric screwdriving.
     
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    I agree 100%

    Every employee of the NHS is important right now. Whether it’s IT ensuring the systems stay online, payroll making sure everyone else gets paid, cleaners making sure everything stays clean etc. etc.

    I don’t have a problem with any NHS employee using their cards to get to the front of the supermarket queue
     
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    We can work from home though, we dont have to work extra hours for it or ridiculous shifts.
     
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    I get the same BBC as you.
     
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    I thought they were to add bed capacity for when ITU and HDU in existing hospitals became full, the London hospitals currently have capacity so the Nightingale is expecting patients just yet.

    My wife is in charge of a ward in this area, every patient (14 of them) on there today at the end of her shift is positive for Covid-19, and they've lost 2 in the last 18 hours. The hospital is filling up but they have cleared most wards so immediate capacity is still pretty good.

    One of the ITU consultants has been advised by local epidemiologists that London's peak is tracking for around Easter Weekend, with our area towards the end of April.

    Too close for comfort. Stay well.
     
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    That's why I wondered if they would work the opposite way round. I wonder if that may actually be better? Specialist hospital that focuses solely on covid-19. Easier to contain the spread etc and puts less nurses at risk.

    But I'm no expert so there's probably really good reasons why they're better as overspill
     
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    Earlier in the week ITU full overspill in HDU , staff running out of basic equipment and not just PPE , it’s already arrived
     
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