Hospital in south east no more beds

[Flyingaway16]

Not in news yet but major city hospital in south east overwhelmed no more beds .

@Flyingaway16

Not in news yet but major city hospital in south east overwhelmed no more beds .

How do you know? I hate posts like this. Scarr mongering

John Radcliffe Oxford . Dr friend told me. I completely understand the fact I could be making it up and you don't know me or my friend but nearby hospitals now being cleared out for covid patients. She was told today. So I would guess will be in news tomorrow or next day?

Doesn’t this happen every winter? I’m not suggesting that makes it ok, it’s obviously shit, but I’m sure there are reports every year of people waiting on trollies in corridors because there are no beds free.

@blaircorneliawaldorf no apparently this is not at all like normal.

@BlairCorneliaWaldorf

Doesn’t this happen every winter? I’m not suggesting that makes it ok, it’s obviously shit, but I’m sure there are reports every year of people waiting on trollies in corridors because there are no beds free.

I think the problem this time is that it will happen at multiple hospitals all at the same time, wheras in previous years it may just have been one or tow getting overwhelmed. They need to get those Nightingales up and running asap.

Worrying!

JR is massive, there are not really any other hospitals of that size for the area.

This has been happening in multiple hospitals for a many weeks

Doesn’t this happen every winter? I’m not suggesting that makes it ok, it’s obviously shit, but I’m sure there are reports every year of people waiting on trollies in corridors because there are no beds free.

This time, hospitals have surged, cleared out wards to make new ICUs, and still they are full. That's what makes it different

I wouldn't say the JR was south East. That's v worrying as I'd say that isn't actually in the areas we've been told cases are extremely high (like Kent and London).

JR is a massive hospital and I'd imagine is covering a huge area and is surrounded by lots of rural, cottage type hospitals that probably don't have the capacity to cope with covid cases rising.

Yet schools round here will be open next week.

They need to get those Nightingales up and running asap.

Wakey Wakey. Where have you been for the last six months.

There will be no Nightingale Hospitals. There's no one to staff them. Its been known since April.

And you had to come and gleefully share the news to further spread anxiety and fear?

@Brunt0n where the hell is the glee in their posts? It’s a forum isn’t it.

coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/healthcare?areaType=nhstrust&areaName=Oxford%20University%20Hospitals%20NHS%20Foundation%20Trust

Outer edge of SE, yes. I suppose you could also call it south central

Debatable whether Oxford is the south east but the JR is absolutely a hospital for the south east. If you get very very ill in Reading - i.e. too ill for the Royal Berkshire - you go to the JR. IIRC it's a major trauma centre, so a lot of expertise and equipment there that smaller hospitals, even those with ICUs etc, may lack

Here in Kent we’ve reached 137% of critical care bed capacity and patients are being helicoptered to Bristol, Leeds, and Southhampton

www.independent.co.uk/news/health/kent-hospitals-coronavirus-nhs-beds-b1781315.html

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That data is absolutely not reflective of the current numbers.

Trust me it’s bad in this area. Whole families going down with covid . And even young people in hospital. The ones I know are not through partying either. Through work and just household mixing for care bubbles. Which does indicate that the 2m and hand washing may just not be sufficient now with the new mutation.

OP. This does happen a lot. It’s the time of year “winter pressure” no beds at that point. A plan is usually crated to make more beds available. Weather that be to lodge patients or wait until the day for some patients to be discharged.

My fear is that the Nightingales have no staff, if they do reopen then there will be untrained staff there. Ambulances would be sent there with the patients who have the elderly or those with ‘underlying health conditions’ so treatment would be very limited. This is what doctors say is happening in hospitals at the moment so just an extension of it (choosing who will get the treatment).

[quote Thewiseoneincognito]@Brunt0n where the hell is the glee in their posts? It’s a forum isn’t it.[/quote]
It’s the fact they came running here to share what their ‘doctor friend’ said so quickly, before it’s in the news, like it’s some exciting bit of celeb gossip

I live near that hospital and I had an anxiety attack after reading this thread. People need to think about what the fuck they’re posting and they they’re posting it. I was already following all the rules and this has made me feel like shit. The people breaking the rules wont give a fuck about this, the same as they haven’t given a fuck all along. So if anyone think they’re doing a public service trying to scare people into better behaviour - stop kidding yourself. You’re just making the decent people have a more difficult time.

@Dreahil1

OP. This does happen a lot. It’s the time of year “winter pressure” no beds at that point. A plan is usually crated to make more beds available. Weather that be to lodge patients or wait until the day for some patients to be discharged.

You can't 'lodge' patients within Covid. It's a highly infectious virus. Lodging patients is brutal anyway, but you can't do it with coronavirus like you might a broken hip!

@Chaotic45 no you can’t. Lodging is usually out of the current speciality. When beds get bad it’s looked at from a hospital as a whole not just the Covid wards! This does happen often.

I say that as I work on admission ward. Not all wards are full of Covid only some wards are cardiology but have positive cases in their side rooms.

So the other patients possibly would be lodged else where to create beds right?