Sending London patients to Yorkshire

[DeRigueurMortis]

It's been reported that due to capacity issues in London there is a proposal to send patients to Yorkshire.

London has more beds per capita than anywhere else in the country.

The nightingales have been dismantled.

In Yorkshire the rates have been high but (depending on north/south/east/west) brought into control though harsh lockdown. Those in tier 2 have been buggered by being inundated by Covid tourism and will be tier 3/4.

So Yorkshire is on the verge of it's own disaster with less beds per person than London and being overwhelmed by London cases before the local community can get a bed in their hospital.

Is it right that this should happen?

The people saying don’t let London patients use Yorkshire beds, would you refuse a London bed for yourself or a very ill relative?

@AwkwardSquad

One of the saddest elements of this whole shitshow is how divisive the tier system has been.

I agree with this and there will be more to come. This government will seek to divide us in order to continue to win elections imo - when you no longer have an external enemy/bogeyman (in our case the EU) - then civil war is more likely.

This whole 'levelling up' line is intended to sow division - it will fuel resentment, especially as no real levelling up will happen.

Sad times ahead for the UK

for all of you in all regions.

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Actual numbers on the bed shortage in London this is terribly worrying.

@whatshalliget

The people saying don’t let London patients use Yorkshire beds, would you refuse a London bed for yourself or a very ill relative?

My FIL is having chemo today (in Yorkshire). More than 30% of covid cases are caught in hospital. And unlike london, Yorkshire still has few cases of the new variant.

Unsurprisingly I’m finding the idea of having people from London with the new Covid variant somehow frightening for him

It's an ethical dilemma.

It really isn’t. It’s a National Health Service. Clue’s in the name.

@Burpeesshmurpees

It is terrifying. If other areas don't help out with beds there will literally be people left dying outside the hospitals. I just can't understand how some people are ok with that

So why aren't they using the Nightingales?

It's pointless having tiers and prohibiting travel between tiers if they're going to ignore those restrictions to cart potentially covid positive patients and staff from areas of high infection rates into areas of low infection rates.

I think this is entirely appropriate.

Wtf happens though when hospitals all over the country are int he same position? Where will we airlift them to then?