To think doctors surgeries and other public services should NOT close for the queens death

[daysayso]

RIP to her majesty, she was a great lady but I'm really starting to get annoyed at these non sensical things.

Her funeral should not mean us normal folks lives are interrupted to this extent.

It's taking the absolute piss that after covid and everything else people are having medical treatment cancelled - the queen I'm sure would not have wanted this

What the hell is the world coming to?

Outrageous and worrying, I don't care how much people love and respected the queen this is completely unacceptable.

Once again, your class determines your bloody cards in life.

Datsayso - did you also express the same feelings about the extra Jubilee bank holiday, on which services were similarly impacted though nit at such short notice? I did nit see so many objections then, but I may be misremembering.

They should have kept the funeral on a Sunday
Services would still be shut but some of those would have been anyway so less of a negative effect on Everyone

It’s a bank holiday so no support or funding for GP practices to open - and plenty like ours have so many doctors, nurses, admin staff with nursery or school age kids that it would be impossible to offer anything resembling a normal service. Plenty have partners working in other parts of the NHS which do run on bank holidays - so it’s our staff left with the kids.
They’re increasing out of hours support for emergencies, and many of us (like me) are working extra on the Tuesday to catch up with the time sensitive appointments originally booked on Monday.
None of it is ideal, but as soon as it became a bank holiday and the nurseries / schools closed then most practices wouldn’t have an option.

I work in general practice and our surgwry is closed. Local ICB (new word for CCGs) directive was to shut, but with option of offering an extended hours service (so one or two GPs and a nurse offering prebooked appointments but no phone lines or admin) if we wanted. Management decided not to.

I'd have happily worked as I'd rather not lose a day of appointments as it has a knock on effect on the rest of my week. I'm not going to be watching the funeral. Not sure what the local covid vaccine clinic are planning, I'll find out tomorrow and if they're open I'll see if they need an extra nurse.

What would they do on a snow day? They should do that.

Emergency workers have always had to work Bank Holidays. It comes with the territory and is known when you sign up for the job. It's a slippery slope if you start saying Bank Holidays are only for x, y and z workers.

Our GP surgery is staying open- confirmed husband’s appointment today. Nice text from them too.

@cantkeepawayforever I feel like a celebration is different - a funeral means something to those who knew the person. I don't want a day off for the queens funeral as remarkable as a woman she was, I've got things to do!

But a funeral on Sunday would be contrary to usual practice in the Church of England, and it would be very odd indeed to change that practice fir the deceased head of the Church…..

I find it interesting how few people are aware that Christian funerals are very rarely on Sundays - again an illustration of the changing of the generations that a Sunday funeral would never gave been seriously considered by the Queen when planning Operation London Bridge / Unicorn.

I'm a nurse in childrens services and will have to cancel so many appointments which I won't be able to rearrange for weeks if we're off. It doesn't seem fair

So you are happy for Doctors’ surgeries to be closed for what was after all just a jolly, but not for the funeral of a monarch? Interesting.

DD’s op on Monday is cancelled.

But there are a whole raft of people who help keep theatres running, many poorly paid who are stuck with school/nurseries closed. You can’t do an op safely with just the highly paid surgeon!

Her op isn’t too time critical so she will be fine. We can’t now make the complicated arrangements needed to support a new op date for 3 months though.

Others are in a far worse position than we are (loosing money etc) but the whole thing has turned me into a republican.

On a snow day you reduce services. Because both staff AND patients can't get in.

The problem will be childcare. It was pretty short notice for schools etc to close.

Well she was involved in the plans so you can guarantee it's all what she wanted...

This is not about the elite - this is about paying due respect to the world's most famous woman (not for her social media profile/singing/dancing/politics/nasty comments/war mongering etc etc but worked to bring peace, diplomacy & smooth difficult international relations when elected & often bribed (or forced elected dictators) threatened world peace) she & her family have done more than any of us could for charity, sport, disabilty, youth enterprise, the economy & national status (we are a piddling world power but at least we have a head of state who can't be bribed for votes). For those of you who have hosp appts / ops cancelled I sympathise but equally so, be patient a little while longer please.

My sister works in a local hospital.
When it snows, half the patients can not get in as buses, trains etc stop running. Loads of staff can not get in as the schools close. Apparently it's chaos.

With more notice, people could have arranged childcare or whatever. A lot of services will continue as usual, some will have to reduce or cancel lists etc.

Apologies - GP practices are private enterprises who get NHS funding (just like your dentists) - up to them uf they want to open (though they like Center Parcs are considering profit margins for partners / shareholders if required to pay staff bank hol rates)

The problem is that it gas been declared a Bank Holiday, so everything - transport, food shops, delivery services, nurseries, banks, social services, rubbish collections etc etc - is closed. It is absolutely not the case that if schools and nurseries were to open , while all other services and businesses took their contractually- allowed Bank Holidays, medical settings could gave carried on as normal.

Once a bank holiday was declared, in the absence of all supporting services as well as some of the NHS’s own staff, the closure of GP services as inevitable.

She was literally famous because of the chance of being born into an elite family. It is all about the elite and the power she successfully retained for the British royal family.

Most famous people are born into already elite, rich families.

DH and I are both in healthcare and would like to work. We don't want services to be cancelled. However DC nursery is closing. They usually only close for Christmas, that's why we picked them.
Our emergency childcare person won't take her as she wants to watch the funeral undisturbed.

So even if services are allowed to run, we'll have to decide between us who gets to go to work and who takes it off.

Will you provide the childcare for the staff's children, as the schools and nurseries are closing?

I don't see why it has to be a bank holiday.

It'd either a bank holiday or its not. Healthcare staff aren't conscripts. If schools are closed how can they work