Hospital in south east no more beds

[Flyingaway16]

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

What does “lodging patients” mean?

Oxfordshire has only been in tier 4 for a week. Hopefully in the next couple of weeks a positive effect will be seen and numbers will drop to manageable levels.

@Lemons1571 it’s where a patient is moved at any point during their hospital stay (most stable/suitable) to another speciality so person A is on a vascular ward. Person B is waiting in A&E and needs a bed and takes Persons A’s bed once available.

@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.

This is the ultimate problem though. If the NHS can't cope with a normal winter, how can they cope with Covid crisis when inept government response has given us 50,000 cases a day?

@Babyroobs Why do people keep saying "use the nightingales!" the NHS is struggling to staff normal ICUs and hospital wards - where are all these staff for the nightingales going to magically appear from?

This is a really good, straightforward article, I think. The situation does not look good - but I have been told on another thread I am not to have that opinion, or express it without divulging the latitude and longitude of my current home, and presumably without delivering a full recital of Land of Hope and Glory on the pipe organ, so YMMV.

Another bizarre claim is that our hospitals are empty. This despite several trusts now recording major incidents as they risk being overwhelmed, and the national database showing England and Wales has more Covid patients admitted than at the spring peak, and climbing. ...

Perhaps most confusingly: “It’s just like every winter for the NHS.” Firstly, winter in this country for the health service is no garden of delights. It is an ever-worsening pandemonium resulting from an underfunded, understaffed and under-resourced health service grinding on, fuelled by the goodwill of its workers. That being said, now that we face a virus that can cause such rapid deterioration on top of our annual cataclysm, and can so utterly overwhelm intensive care departments, we are indeed facing an altogether worse proposition. On Wednesday alone, 981 people died of Covid.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/01/healthcare-workers-covid-conspiracies-coronavirus-deniers?utm_term=755c2f1185663e3ce7110c2df73b8d2b&utm_campaign=BestOfGuardianOpinionUK&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=opinionuk_email

@Brunt0n I'm sorry but if you're doing everything you can maybe don't read these threads? If there's nothing more that you can do, it's only going to cause anxiety but information like this is valuable to others.

Many parents are expected to send their kids back to Oxfordshire primaries with no masks and no social distancing next week and are trying to decide if that is really in their children's best interests (some children may be vulnerable). The data is always quite out of date by the time it's published. Parents are looking for whatever information is available about healthcare capacity in their local areas - I certainly am.

I agree with @IloveJKRowling . Getting information and moving your thinking as the landscape changes is part of what you sign up for when becoming a parent. If posters need some help managing their anxiety, the answer isn't hiding information from other people.