Critical Numbers 163

[Jenasaurus]

That figure stays the same no matter how many people die, does that mean the people dying were never critical, I am confused by the way the stats are recorded. Do they actually mean anything.

You could assume as there are only 163 critical cases in the UK there will be 163 or less deaths tomorrow but that is never the case

I don’t think the NHS is prioritising any figures but new positives and deaths. You’ll notice our recovery rate is really low too and I would be happy presuming it’s due to no resources allocated to follow up patients sent home not requiring critical care.

For reference I’ve worked in the NHS long enough to know that they commonly struggle to record outcomes to close the government required 18 week pathway (timescale for patients to be seen after referral) even when they’ve fulfilled it. It’s generally down to IT illiteracy or overly complex systems to record it.

thanks for explaining that, it makes sense

That is comforting as the worldometer puts the death rate for closed cases at 19% but if recovered people aren’t properly part of the stats I hope that is what skewed it !

From what I hear from a Nurse I know, these figures are not being kept up to date. These new hospitals will all be full in the next 3 weeks.

The numbers they have listed for that are from when Nicola Sturgeon has announced Scotland numbers over the past few weeks as only she has been forthcoming with those figures.