MAtt Hancock now

[SouthWestmom]

Wanting NHS volunteers to help with delivering meds etc.

87 more people died overnight

Lots of people signed up through the returnees scheme

I think you’re remembering wrong, can you post a link to Jenny harries saying that? Because it was only about the 11 th they said they would increase and gave no time line to do so.

The highest they have done so far was just under nine thousand in one day last week.

Absolutely amazing that so many people have signed up to come out of retirement. Incredibly selfless people!

I am a bit confused as to why the NHS requiring 250,000 workers are sending those working for them in non-clinical roles home. My next door neighbour is in an administrative position within the NHS and has been sent home today, as all clinics and non-emergency treatment has been postponed she has very little work from home to do but has not been asked to re-deploy, something she was surprised about and will now be signing up as a volunteer (before anyone wonders how I know - we spoke by shouting over the fence whilst making arrangements to help an elderly neighbour).

Overall most of what he said seemed good but he said we need more underground trains but no suggestion of which person should replace the withdrawn trains and how someone should stop too many people getting on. Also should have said something like employers who insist on workers going to work should have a legal responsibility to ensure safe practice and any not doing so should be reported to the health and safety officers.

MrsWhites Perhaps its something to do with her pay and contract.

Loads of people I know are coming back, or have signed up to do so. It isn't just people who retired at 60 or 65, people deregister for loads of reasons. For instance people who are health visitors re-registering to go back on the nursing or midwifery registers, people who couldn't make the job work with family circumstances a few years ago coming back as their circumstances have changed and this has been the catalyst for them to say they will come back.

It isn't a 'suicide mission' to come back. There are many wards that need working on that don't have covid 19 patients on, or where the risk is still relatively low for staff (no aerosol generating procedures etc).

I'm not scared of getting it myself because I know the risks are reasonably low in my role, it isn't Ebola. I am scared of my parents getting it. So I'm going to work and staying away from them.

THANK YOU everyone who has volunteered. You will save lives.

My electrical engineer friend has signed up as a volunteer to build ventilators. So many good people out there.

If we now require this sort of hospital (and it is not a hospital in the sense we are familiar with - as far as medical care goes) as well as the army on that hospital site (and other sites), then this is much, much, much worse than we are seeing or being told in explicit terms

Don't scaremonger. Germany has also been doing this, and another reason for doing it is that you make such a hospital "red" ie has CV19 sufferers in it, and another hospital/clinic in the area can be "green" and used for other patients and kept CV19 -free.

How do you volunteer to deliver meds? Is it worth me going to the village chemist tomorrow and offering?

I agree, we owe a debt of thanks to the medics who have signed up to go back and help out. It restores my faith in humanity and it is clearly not a suicide mission, what an awful scare mongering thing to write, thankfully it seems many thousands of medically trained staff know better and have signed up to go back.

Take my hat off to anyone who's volunteered. Some of us will our lives to you. Respect.

How do you volunteer?

www.goodsamapp.org/NHS

For volunteers

VivaLeBeaver here’s the link www.goodsamapp.org/NHS

Is there a similar link for Scotland, or is that for the whole of the UK, does anyone know? It seems to specify England only.

Ah, ignore me, England only.

Maybe some of those who will be on 80% pay would like to volunteer? Seems fair. Also I think it is great that the hospital is being set up, we know it's going to be absolutely horrendous by looking at what has happened abroad, and with people still swanning about and tubes packed, we will sadly need it.

If we now require this sort of hospital (and it is not a hospital in the sense we are familiar with - as far as medical care goes) as well as the army on that hospital site (and other sites), then this is much, much, much worse than we are seeing or being told in explicit terms the information has been out there in explicit terms for at least two weeks. There have been a lot of threads in "coronavirus" topic with links to testimonies from Italy's hospitals, which were just dreadful and explicit, about how contagious it was and how quickly it became out of control, and how the people affected cannot breathe and so on, and how France was reacting, and Brussels, and USA and so it has been clear what was happening, also testimonies from inside UK hospitals. There has been explicit info and there is explicit info online everywhere over the last 2 weeks, how long the virus lives, how it is airborne.

Big thank you to everyone helping, in every country.

Sorry - I meant how the people critically affected cannot breathe. Some people experience minor symptoms. You can numbers from the stats, if you google.

Wow! Some truly amazing people out there. Thank you, all.

And lucky for the Tories that so many selfless individuals are prepared to return after being shafted over the last ten years. It’s David Cameron’s Big Society dream. I could say that if we had better social care provision and ... oh sod it, there’s no point. Just THANK YOU to all who’ve said they’ll return/volunteer.

Yesterday at 3.45 he announced 500 and something people registered to return. Then during the night it went to thousands.
God, they think we're stupid.
Wtf would volunteer unless they were on a suicide mission.

I’m almost speechless that anyone cant understand why people, particularly those who’ve worked in a caring profession such as the NHS wouldnt want to do everything they can to help. Look at the sacrifices being made by active drs and nurses, just cos someone’s left it doesn’t change their desire to help people in anyway they can. My ex nurse friend has signed up.

I am classed as a vulnerable person, today my doctor phoned me and told me I could have three months worth of prescriptions. however he is waiting for volunteers to come forward I live in a small village ,
In answer to the people asking how to volunteer perhaps a suggestion might be to ask at your local surgery by phone of course.

@PicsInRed the army on that hospital site it is because there aren't going to be enough ICU beds in regular hospitals. France has done a similar thing. For those worrying, UK has said that they have ordered in many more ventilators - like other countries - so fingers crossed there.

The volunteers wont be dealing with COVID patients....they would be backfill for non COVID hospitals...so not overly risky

I desperately want to volunteer, I am fit, healthy and take no meds.
But I am over 70 so I can't and it is bloody FRUSTRATING. I am, of course, doing as I am told as I am now classified as a vulnerable old bat, and concentrating on getting involved in a telephone helpline for my village. But can I please say again it is FRUSTRATING.

Phew, that's better.

cologne 4000 beds. That's nothing to do with red and green and everything to do with capacity. Don't parrot "scaremongering" at those expressing concern during a disaster. I remember that word being used a lot a month ago. Look where we are now.

liberoncolours yes the lack of staffed beds is precisely the concern.