COVID - general discussion - Temp Locked

Posted on 31/12/2020 18:02 by brue

Down in the SW we're starting to take patients from Kent and London even though our numbers are rising. What shocked me in the video clip was that new Covid patients were in younger age groups and in family groups and the NHS Professor said that it wasn't the new variant that was spreading it, just the inability of people to stick to the distance and hand washing rules etc. 

Posted on 31/12/2020 18:38 by Tinwheeler

The Exeter Nightingale is in use and I believe it's the only one in the country being used for covid patients. Staffing it is a problem.

Posted on 31/12/2020 18:56 by Bakers2

One of the hospital's in our trust is 700 medical staff down at the mo 😱. Those working are being asked to cancel leave and there's incentive for working extra shifts.

Posted on 31/12/2020 20:25 by Wherenext

At this time of year the media like to come out with their Man/Woman of the year awards.

For me there is no one person deserving of this award rather  Every Person who works and has worked this year in the NHS, whether they be front line staff, managers securing PPE, Ambulance drivers, Porters, Care Home staff and Care workers out visiting folk et al deserves some sort of official recognition so lets make the NHS the "Person of the Year", at least on here.

The conditions these people work under, the stress, the fatigue, the sheer continuous of it all, day in day out defies description unless you know someone in that position. Let's not forget there have been many who have paid the ultimate sacrifice, particularly at the start, when PPE was a figment of the Governments imagination, some of them answering a clarion call for retired ex staff to return.

I sincerely hope those people who won't have the vaccine because they value their freedom will not infect one single person who increases the NHS's workload. 

Posted on 31/12/2020 20:25 by Wherenext

At this time of year the media like to come out with their Man/Woman of the year awards.

For me there is no one person deserving of this award rather  Every Person who works and has worked this year in the NHS, whether they be front line staff, managers securing PPE, Ambulance drivers, Porters, Care Home staff and Care workers out visiting folk et al deserves some sort of official recognition so lets make the NHS the "Person of the Year", at least on here.

The conditions these people work under, the stress, the fatigue, the sheer continuous of it all, day in day out defies description unless you know someone in that position. Let's not forget there have been many who have paid the ultimate sacrifice, particularly at the start, when PPE was a figment of the Governments imagination, some of them answering a clarion call for retired ex staff to return.

I sincerely hope those people who won't have the vaccine because they value their freedom will not infect one single person who increases the NHS's workload. 

Posted on 31/12/2020 20:25 by Wherenext

At this time of year the media like to come out with their Man/Woman of the year awards.

For me there is no one person deserving of this award rather  Every Person who works and has worked this year in the NHS, whether they be front line staff, managers securing PPE, Ambulance drivers, Porters, Care Home staff and Care workers out visiting folk et al deserves some sort of official recognition so lets make the NHS the "Person of the Year", at least on here.

The conditions these people work under, the stress, the fatigue, the sheer continuous of it all, day in day out defies description unless you know someone in that position. Let's not forget there have been many who have paid the ultimate sacrifice, particularly at the start, when PPE was a figment of the Governments imagination, some of them answering a clarion call for retired ex staff to return.

I sincerely hope those people who won't have the vaccine because they value their freedom will not infect one single person who increases the NHS's workload.