The way that the NHS is pretending covid doesn't exist is a travesty. Not just hospitals, but GP surgeries, pharmacies, etc are all back to ignoring basic infection control, crowding vulnerable people in tiny, cramped, unventilated waiting rooms, etc.
My OH has to have monthly infusions for cancer treatment. The treatment beds are back to being virtually touching each other again, nurses aren't wearing masks or even washing hands between patients, patients aren't having their temperature checked on entry. It's as if covid never happened. And these are the most extremely clinically vulnerable patients, i.e. cancer sufferers undergoing chemotherapy (which weakens their immune systems).
He has to pick up chemo meds every 4 weeks from the hospital pharmacy. They've removed the plastic screens from the counter (just why?), and the last time he had to go in, the place was crowded, no attempts being made to speed up the queue of people collecting drugs, all the staff behind the counter were coughing their heads off. He was left waiting in that cramped environment, no windows, no ventilation, along with 20/30 other patients for over an hour! Almost inevitably, he caught covid, symptoms started 2/3 days later, he's fully jabbed, but it knocked him badly, and he had to have his regular infusion cancelled and he couldn't start his monthly chemo drugs - all because he felt too unwell to have even more chemo into him which always makes him feel weaker and more unwell.
You'd think the NHS would actually manage to make even some minor precautions for cancer sufferers, but no, it's back to business as normal, no protections, etc. Absolutely diabolical. After the two years of lockdowns, restrictions, etc., it appears the NHS have simply forgotten! Not sure why the whole country had to lockdown to "save the NHS" when the NHS itself can't be arsed to take any precautions of their own!