News from the Times
Britain’s busiest hospital has only one nurse for every three Covid patients being treated in intensive care as the capital faces a tsunami of new cases, leaked correspondence shows.
The Royal London Hospital in east London has reached “disaster medicine mode” and is no longer able to provide adequate critical care, according to management.
In an email sent last night and seen by The Times, critical care staff were told: “We are now in disaster medicine mode. We are no longer providing high standard critical care, because we cannot.
“While this is far from ideal, it’s the way things are, and the way they have to be for now. Things are going to get harder before they get better.”
It comes as the hospital’s doctors and nurses urged bosses to declare an emergency as they opened a new ward and moved adults into a paediatric ward after 200 new Covid patients were admitted in recent days.
In the email, management said that “every hospital in northeast London is struggling” and that the rest of the capital would be the same within two weeks.
Maybe west end unthinker can tell us whether not putting London into lockdown earlier was a good idea or not ?
Bearing in mind that they new about the new variant in September nd their rates were going up,even though the north’s were going down.
They also knew by December 8th that the highest rates of new infections in London were rising fastest in children in school years 7 to 12. In those schools they had increased by 70X in the space of 6 weeks . That is why Greenwhich and other LA’s wanted to close schools down the week before Xmas but were threatened with legal cation by the government if they did.
Plus bear in mind that critical care being so swamped now means they will struggle to deal. It just with Covid patients but with heart attacks, RTAs and crime. Victims of all ages.
Anyone still think Boris is the man or the job ?
The lies and manipulation is off the scale and the actions of gov are doing massive amounts of harm!
