Rationing of care in the UK

[YoursTunbridgeWells]

Guardian’s Today in Focus podcast - denis Campbell states that doctors fear that UK doctors fear we will be in an Italy situation within days or weeks.
What happens with the existing ICU patients with heart and liver issues? He suggests that heart, cancer etc surgery will have to be postponed and care rationed.
Doctors already want all outpatients and elective surgery cancelled from now but this isn't happening.
We have 4200 critical care beds - many fewer than Italy per person and they can't cope.
Chris Whitty has said he's worried we don't have enough ICU support for those who need it.
NHS fund to pay for extra tests but mostly for staffing including 18k student nurses and overtime.

Now this is just one person's views and maybe he has a policical axe to grind. Nonetheless, it is the most awful thing.

We have found out today that MH services local to us may have to be cut as medically training drs and nurses may be requisitioned elsewhere. That looks like the first rationing I have seen.

This is one of the things that most scares me about all of this. Compared to other countries (e.g Germany) our health service is already groaning under the strain of too many demands being placed on it and not enough funding - BEFORE this pandemic happened.

I honestly don't know what's going to happen but I know it's not going to be good. When I see posts on here and elsewhere from people who work in the NHS it males my blood run cold. I'm so grateful to them for doing the work they do, but I sense many of them are scared as well and bracing themselves for the onslaught.