08-25-2020, 02:24 PM
(08-25-2020, 02:11 PM)baggy1 Wrote: The hospitals are fitting in as many operations, treatments and consultations as they can from what I can see, obviously they have limited capacity but the space isn't being taken up by covid any more. There will obviously be a backlog but the government is pushing for using private hospitals as part of their privatisation agenda. Add to that there has always been a backlog and it looks like there is a narrative starting about it only is because of covid (there was a serious incident called last year because of the backlogs). Also don't forget the years of underfunding and understaffing of the NHS and you can see why we now have problems.
Doctors and consultants are no longer seeing patients face to face, or certainly mine aren't, and from what I have been told they seem happy that this will last for a long while, maybe even a permanent arrangement. Not only are people having their treatment delayed for existing conditions, but I suspect the lack of face to face assessment will delay the diagnosis of new fatal conditions. In the long term this will be far more catastrophic.