What are hospitals like at the moment?

[Wildboar]

Are they quieter than usual due to people wary or catching it? Or business as usual?

I was at hospital on Friday (Scotland Forth Valley). Was just the same as normal. I am there every 3.months and have been for yests.

I was at the hospital on Friday(Glasgow) with my sister. It was definitely business as usual.

I was admitted to hospital on Thursday and am in a ward just down from an isolation ward for coronavirus. Apparently A&E was rammed last night with people wanting to be tested against advice. Hospital seem very calm and prepared at the moment.

Our hospital chief exec said it was BAU on Friday. But for how long is that

Ours is eerily quiet. Lots of people are staying away so we only have a one hour wait in A&E and people dont seem to be going to appointments. In 3/4 weeks it will be a different scene altogether 😢

Business as usual.
Very busy.

I’m dreading needing a o use the hospital over the coming months. I hope we can cope.

I had an outpatient appointment on Friday (gynae) cancelled, and another tomorrow (gastro) also cancelled. My mother had one this coming Tuesday (haematology) which has been cancelled. No explanation as to why, just “we’ll send you another through the post sometime”.

So if they’re cancelling a lot of outpatient appointments, I’d guess they’re emptier than usual. No idea why they’re cancelling them though. Would make sense to me to get through as many as possible while waiting for the Covid-19 deluge so they don’t have as many to pick up again afterwards.

Our a and e attends are slightly down, admissions through a and e slightly down, cancelling or rearranging or converting any non urgent appts to telephone clinics where possible to reduce number of patients in waiting rooms. Cancelling appointments also frees up consultants to do more ward rounds and therefore discharge patients quicker, creating the capacity and flow we'll need it and when the time comes.
Also enables them to attend training and meetings about covid and the next steps.

Appreciate the cancelled appointments are frustrating to some (especially with no explanation, that's not on) but I'd hope that other hospitals are working off the same principles for maintaining appointments as mine is.

I'm really worried because Friday I noticed a bleeding mole on my back. My local trust have cancelled all non emergency apps so I wonder if I'll be able to get tested. Worrying times.