We locked down in March for the NHS. Had the NHS locked out in June/July and made services to all more readily available I'd have a great deal more time for it now.
DD had an ADHD review in September when there were 8 cases per 100,000 here. Her MH facility was still closed. She got a telephone call arranged for between 9am and 5pm. No video call, no two hour time slot. The facility is completely closed and if you ring the number there is a recorded message advising to ring the main switch because the office is closed. Vulnerable people have to wait for admin to call them back the msg having been relayed by switch. It is a disgrace.
Steps cataract op was cancelled because bar is raised. Consultant said he could do the op Friday for £5k when asked!
Have also heard that rates of still birth have risen from 1 to 2 per 1000 to 9.4 per 1000 due to difficulties accessing ante-natal apts.
On of our neighbours is a consultant for necessary but non urgent surgery. He was at home throughout late March, April, May and much of June. Didn't seem to be picking up alternative work.
MH admin and consultant above presumably on full pay.
It is simply not good enough and significant questions will have to be asked when this is over.
Some people in the NHS have been flat out I appreciate. Others could have been utilised to deal with other issues whilst receiving full pay.
Appreciate front line staff should have had priority access to supermarkets etc but saw more than once office staff (and I know them to be office staff as have met them) pull out their NHS lanyards and March to the front of long queues.
What I really want to know is where is She Simon Stephens? Does anyone know?
The non front line element has not covered itself in glory although paradoxically my GP practice is 10 times better having got itself on-line having refused to do so in any helpful way over the last five or six years.