930,000 people yesterday

We are also doing slightly better than the EU who have way more restrictions.

 

Think only worry is the slow roll out of the booster jabs. Not heard anything about mine. It's over 6 months since my second jab now & I'm over 50 and in a higher risk group. Not that worried for myself, but indicates we are falling behind the curve somewhat.

We have 2 weddings cancelled this weekend due to family members with Covid out of 8 that were scheduled.

Hope Boris is enjoying his holiday.

 

Get in contact with your GP to see what's happening. My mother is due hers today after being rung up last week to tell them they would go see her today and do the flu jab at the same time.

 

Cheers. Won't take up their time for now, but if I haven't heard anything in a couple of weeks I'll drop them an email.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/dec/04/health2

We've been having a winter crisis in the NHS since Labour were in charge over twenty years ago. It's not a new thing.

 

Each country in the EU has its own individual response. I’ve no idea what the motives would be for someone pretending that wasn’t the case, but I’d completely ignore their conclusions as being irrelevant.

 

You're right it isn't a new thing but winter 1999/2000 which prompted this article a year later was a particularly bad one from memory as I remember my dad being denied a bed and it nearly killed him due to an undiagnosed problem that surgeons admitted they had got wrong.

To suggest it happens to that extent every single year is a little disingenuous but this is what happens when you don't fund the NHS properly.

 

You don’t need to contact them, you can just book online here https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coron...ter-dose-of-the-coronavirus-covid-19-vaccine/

It’s worth doing sooner rather than later, if you don’t want to be a bother (which you wouldn’t be anyway) as not many people know about it yet so there’s plenty of availability. Waiting til later will just make them busier at a busy time.

 

God knows where I stand. Had my 2nd vaccine over 6 months ago as an NHS worker but have since left the NHS. Fiancee has had hers as she is 6 months pregnant (and NHS too), but not sure when I'll get mine. I'm still a registered nurse, clinical and paying the NMC for the privilege but not classed as frontline.

A colleague of mine who left NHS at a similar time was given his booster via his old trust despite him leaving. Have had no contact from my old work, so in limbo.

 

Just from typing in to Google theguardian winter crisis followed by a year, that paper alone loves to mention that phrase annually. Being in a winter crisis is an annual event not a covid thing.

Winter Crisis 2001: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/oct/28/health.politicalnews

Winter Crisis 2010: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/oct/14/nhs-london-hospitals-winter-crisis

Winter Crisis 2013: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/jul/14/nhs-repeat-winter-crisis-hospitals

Winter Crisis 2014: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/nov/27/nhs-winter-crisis-more-patients-fewer-doctors

Winter Crisis 2015: https://www.theguardian.com/society...s-worst-winter-accident-and-emergency-a-and-e

Winter Crisis 2016: https://www.theguardian.com/society...-sector-to-avert-winter-crisis-hospitals-told

Winter Crisis 2017: https://www.theguardian.com/society...e-winter-crisis-than-last-year-watchdog-warns

Winter Crisis 2018: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/dec/08/nhs-hospitals-emergency-measures-winter-crisis

Winter Crisis 2019: https://www.theguardian.com/society...a-beds-created-by-52-per-cent-of-uk-hospitals

Winter Crisis 2021: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...easures-now-or-risk-nhs-crisis-johnson-warned

 

The NHS goes into "Winter Pressures" from about late-October to mid-March, when every year it is rammed with patients. They don't have the capacity to cope with the extra surge on demand due to the cold, wet weather combined with seasonal illnesses.

 

I think this needs to be amended to "being in a winter crisis is an annual event since the Tories regained power"

 

Only for health or care workers. Says the rest of us need to wait to be contacted

 

It's actually worse that it happens every year and politicians know it, but fail to deal with the problem.

 

It's utterly scandalous that there has been zero rise in capacity since the start of the pandemic, in fact if anything it's decreased. All that money spunked on testing

Government of course to blame but the NHS management is also culpable. They have over 4% of the UK's working age population employed by them!

 

110,000 beds I think.

I also believe the that in 1987 the figure as around 210,000

 

Less hospital beds per capita than most comparable countries, the NHS does more than the privatised US healthcare system for a tiny fraction of the cost.

The bottom line is that healthcare is a necessity, and if you can work out a way to do it without employing people, I’m sure everyone would be willing to listen.

 

Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying ffs.

This type of attitude is why the NHS never gets any better. Absolute wilful refusal to accept there could possibly be any fault apportioned to any of the many tiers of management in the organisation and instead ridiculous obfuscation and making ludicrous extrapolations of the point being made.

 

Apparently anyone can use it: