My local hospital is overwhelmed

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Local hospital has tonight said that is struggling with the number of covid 19 patients and is asking people to think carefully whether they actually need to go to hospital.

I'm so worried. Surely the Christmas mixing when we're already in trouble is going to be an absolute disaster?

The vaccine has been such good news yet it still feels like we've got so much further to go.

Not sure why I'm posting, just needed to vent

Can I ask whereabouts in the country you are?

Oh dear - where in the UK are you OP?

In Lancashire numbers had gone down - even though we’re still tier 3

Same here in South Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Not everyone will be mixing, I won’t.
Just because we can doesn’t mean we should.

I can't understand all the reports about numbers dropping. I've heard of more cases and more achool closures this last week than ever before locally (North East) my department is fully online next week as we can no longer cope with illness / isolation levels

My friend is a nurse and said the same thing yesterday. But she said the problem is people testing positive left, right and centre on all the other wards

Ours in South Wales have been saying that for at least two weeks if that's any consolation...

I'm in South Wales.

Perhaps the same one as ImAllOut and I've just not noticed the posts before

@FippertyGibbett I won't be either

@ImAllOut

Ours in South Wales have been saying that for at least two weeks if that's any consolation...

Yep! I'm in South Wales too and all non urgent ops have now been cancelled . I hope those working in the ABHB are ok.

Yes ABHB. Maybe I'm just a bit behind on the news

I think they'll make an announcement soon about a lockdown. The health board is worse now than it was in march and April and numbers are spiralling!!!

Yes we are ABUHB. If it helps my grandmother was in hospital for a week in a covid ward with them last week and is absolutely fine. The staff were too busy to answer the phone which was a bit of a nightmare when wanting an update on her condition (no phone signal or WiFi!) but other than that she said they were all lovely, just busy.

Glad to hear your grandmother is ok

Thank you. Unfortunately this situation is inevitable really as Aneurin Bevan is serving all of the worst hit counties in Wales. Caerphilly, Torfaen, Blaenau Gwent, Newport and even Monmouthshire have high figures at the moment.

yes it is. That's why I think the Christmas mixing is absolutely crazy when our cases are so high

@ballsdeep
You mean like the overly draconian one that they attempted last month that had no effect?
Unless politicians are willing to shut schools there is absolutely no point in attempting a lock down that just fucks over the economy.

That is worrying. Christmas mixing is crazy to me too.

Noone will adhere to anything other than a full lockdown so it's pointless. Also I actually think the increase in cases is having the opposite effect on people's mindset. I think people now know more people who have personally tested positive than they did in the initial outbreak but who have had no symptoms, so just think it's not that big a deal anyway.

We normally have a big Christmas. Not this year just us.

BBC News - Covid-19: Welsh ambulance patient waits 19 hours outside hospital
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-55289448
I should add to my previous post actually that although she received excellent care, it took 20 hours for an ambulance to get my grandmother. There were 10 ambulances stacked outside when my grandfather made the 999 call as advised by his GP. He was told not to drive her himself but to wait.

now that is scary. He's got suspected sepsis or stroke and he's waited 19hrs!!!

Playing devil's advocate, aren't hospitals usually extremely busy this time of year anyway? I remember ever winter our local one in kent has ambulances queuing

I thought you might be ABUHB...it's been on my Facebook all day. I can't imagine what fresh place on hell A&E in the Grange must be.