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Alright Kate, here we go. https://twitter.com/KateAndrs/status/1308482822429081600
Hospitals are not like parking garages, we don't just "need a space" for a patient. To have cancer treatment like surgery you need nurses, doctors, staff, and ICU that also needs that staff.
In March and April, much of the staff we would use for routine treatment like anaesthetists, theatre nurses, ODPs were deployed to cover ersatz intensive care beds. We had normal wards staffed by outpatient nurses, and acute medicine and surgery nurses moved to ICU
In order to do this, we closed wards, because an empty space with no healthcare staff is just that, a space
That's before I go into whether it's wise to start treatments to suppress the immune system at the height of the pandemic.
That's before I go into whether it's wise to start treatments to suppress the immune system at the height of the pandemic.
"Within weeks of the height of the pandemic" we were already planning our recovery program. Cancer, essential surgery started up again, and we kept up with outpatient appointments as soon as we could. My colleagues are working very hard on that daily.
Had we not been in a position of chronic underinvestment, that constantly means we were chasing our tail even before the pandemic, of course we'd be in a better position now.
But that wouldn't fit The Spectator's narrative would it?
But that wouldn't fit The Spectator's narrative would it?
