London Hospital declares Major Incident.

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This is frightening, and it’s not the hospital that l have heard about earlier today. This is in South London and l am hearing about a hospital in North London.
www.independent.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-london-queen-elizabeth-hospital-oxygen-b1779468.html

What happens next ?

The hospital for Greenwich and what did the government do just twice weeks ago??!!

The fact Greenwich Council tried their best to stop this from happening and the government threatened legal action on the council and schools who only wanted to try to lower cases to ease the pressure on the hospital, means this government are directly responsible for this crisis.

This is very worrying to me as my DS has been admitted several times to children's ward via 999 and A&E for asthma. Blue lips, gasping. It doesn't bear thinking about.

You can’t really centre all efforts on the vaccine roll out when there are so many sick people, that’s the problem. They’re not only in hospitals there will also be those in nursing homes and their own homes and hospices, who are looked after by staff in primary care. The more people who have to be redeployed to look after them, the less available to give the vaccine. The more people with covid, the more health care staff isolating and unwell. The only remedy is drastic action to bring the infection rate down imo.

@Lookslikerainted

What is the point of this thread? Apart from to spread fear? I swear some people are just thriving off the drama.

I started this thread to help people see what is happening in London, the media aren’t focusing on this because of Brexit / Christmas. People have a right to know.

@ChloeDecker

The hospital for Greenwich and what did the government do just twice weeks ago??!!

The fact Greenwich Council tried their best to stop this from happening and the government threatened legal action on the council and schools who only wanted to try to lower cases to ease the pressure on the hospital, means this government are directly responsible for this crisis.

Unbelievable isn’t it. Gross incompetence.

@ChloeDecker

The hospital for Greenwich and what did the government do just twice weeks ago??!!

The fact Greenwich Council tried their best to stop this from happening and the government threatened legal action on the council and schools who only wanted to try to lower cases to ease the pressure on the hospital, means this government are directly responsible for this crisis.

It's beyond awful.

I've been told by a relative in the emergency services that the London Nightingale is about to open again. Maybe more people need to read things like this before they actually start to take more notice of what they are supposed to be doing to control the spread. You only have to read some posts on here to realise that far too many see the rules as something they will strive to get around.

@redcandlelight

the qe is a relatively small hospital but serves a very populated and geographically large area. I'm not surprised tbh. it was a question of when not if.

This. It serves Greenwich where the schools issue kicked off pre-Christmas. It was inevitable.

@Ferrari458

I've been told by a relative in the emergency services that the London Nightingale is about to open again. Maybe more people need to read things like this before they actually start to take more notice of what they are supposed to be doing to control the spread. You only have to read some posts on here to realise that far too many see the rules as something they will strive to get around.

Exactly Ferrari. I feel it’s being buried amongst all the other stories...that or even the news editors have covid fatigue.

I’ve heard from a friend this eve (she works in a job with access to such info) that Ldn will go into T5 in a matter of days. 8pm curfew and leaving home to exercise will not be allowed, apparently. Grim few weeks ahead if it is true.

@DownstairsMixUp

This isn't that unusual, it's scary but the media really don't help. I worked at an east London hospital for five years (old one, now it's gone and replaced) and this happened twice in the winter

Yes, the hospital I work at declared a major incident a few weeks ago for entirely non-Covid related reasons. It does generally happen once or twice a year but isn't generally reported in the media (or if it is, local media only).

"London Hospital declares major incident" - I wonder if the government told them to? Because the government needs and is drooling over big scary headlines so people are too frightened to mix on New Year's Eve, and they need a new thing now that Christmas is over? Because out and out scaremongering has never been part of the government's modus operandi, aided and abetted by social media, such as Mumsnet? The spin machine is working just as hard as the hospitals are.

@fassbendersmistress

I’ve heard from a friend this eve (she works in a job with access to such info) that Ldn will go into T5 in a matter of days. 8pm curfew and leaving home to exercise will not be allowed, apparently. Grim few weeks ahead if it is true.

Good grief.

@BlackeyedSusan

Probably someone coming along saying it's not that bad...

Or someone saying their local hospital has lots of spaces so not something they should do anything about.

Its not that bad. There are other hospitals thats why they have a divert policy.

I suspect the true extent of things is being suppressed maybe to avoid panic? Or maybe the government don't want the inevitable blame of allowing Christmas bubbles to go ahead. Everyone I've spoken to seems to have pushed those Xmas day rules just a little bit further then allowed.

@fassbendersmistress

I’ve heard from a friend this eve (she works in a job with access to such info) that Ldn will go into T5 in a matter of days. 8pm curfew and leaving home to exercise will not be allowed, apparently. Grim few weeks ahead if it is true.

Oh christ it's like deja vu of the 'my brothers friends cousin is a soldier and has been told to prep for street deployment in the next week' messages going around in March!

that and 41,385 new cases today.
it is not even january.
hard to comprehend.

i guess when your time is up, it is up!

@fassbendersmistress

I’ve heard from a friend this eve (she works in a job with access to such info) that Ldn will go into T5 in a matter of days. 8pm curfew and leaving home to exercise will not be allowed, apparently. Grim few weeks ahead if it is true.

You'd really think people with jobs involving that kind of access would have some sort of confidentiality clause.

@Lookslikerainted

What is the point of this thread? Apart from to spread fear? I swear some people are just thriving off the drama.

If information makes you feel afraid then perhaps you need to stay away from this board. There are plenty of places where you can feel safe and unconcerned.

well perhaps people should remember the fear that we had in april, and be more cautious.

@Lookslikerainted

What is the point of this thread? Apart from to spread fear? I swear some people are just thriving off the drama.

Yes, quite.

Nobody in their right mind is going to head off to A&E at the moment anyway, unless it is absolutely necessary.

This is not a new thing! It happens every winter for goodness sake..

There’s no staff: that’s the problem.

And yes he Nightingales were/are worst case scenario where people are unconscious and probably being overseen by a small number of actual clinical staff because there aren’t any.

There are no patient toilets in the Nightingales. Because the patients wouldn’t be conscious/normal patients.

Its not that bad. There are other hospitals thats why they have a divert policy.

all london hospitals are at their limits. there is nowhere to divert to.