Inflexible? We have doubled ICU capacity in a month

I went into an ICU with 14 COVID mostly ventilated patients ~30 times last week, and the nursing staff probably spent 30h in there each… I am one of thousands risking our lives

The editor of the Telegraph should resign https://twitter.com/richardbentall/status/1246372352092442624

“Pandemic” has been No 1 on the national risk log for years

All governments have failed to regard spare capacity in the NHS as a strategic asset, and the last 10y cuts have made this worse

No ideology will make Healthcare suddenly cheap and infinitely flexible

The outrageous thing is that the Telegraph has been at the forefront of those denigrating sober careful analysis of fact in favour of uninformed ideology - that is our problem today…

No country can prepare for every “movie script”, and all may rue the decisions of their predecessors.

But SARS, Swine flu, and the bombings in Manchester, Brussels, Paris, Madrid were all clear warnings Conservative governments have failed to heed or plan beyond…

It should be obvious to all that National security isn’t just about Nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers…

And deliberate decisions have been made to disregard the need to maintain stockpiles of masks etc, whilst we do stockpile nuclear missiles…

The reality is the NHS is a wonderful mechanism for ensuring national security in this respect if this is an explicit domain of its responsibility

But this capacity needs to be funded over and above “business as usual”, although it would improve NHS performance in all sorts of areas

I just wish the Telegraph could get behind those of us working in the NHS… the selfish isolationist ideology they peddle is our problem - it’s why we can’t make masks, ventilators, grow enough food, test for COVID, cooperate with the EU - it’s just wholly wrong