More stringent measures next week?

[AchillesLastStand]

From the Guardian just now:

www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/10/stringent-uk-covid-measures-needed-within-a-week-leak-reveals

@cloudiestdays

I work in a large acute hospital and we have ambulances queuing for hours outside and lots of beds inside full of medically fit old people who can't be discharged because they need an adequate package of care that is not available.

So the medically fit but frail 90 year old lies in the hospital bed getting frailer and less mobile by the hour, while the fit and healthy 50 year old who has sudden heart issues can't have a bed.

My dad had a stroke on Saturday on his 90th birthday. Spent 24 hours in a and e because there was no bed on the ward. Mum has dementia and he was officially her carer, although failing dismally at the job. I'm not hopeful that any care package will be in place quickly enough. It's obviously very stressful.

I also don't understand people who refuse the vaccine. I can't get my head around what thought process you have to go through to decide that it's better not to. 🤔

Completely agree with Champ
You have to practically be dead to get an appointment at most doctors surgeries these days. Along with that and the amount of time wasters turning up at A&E with a hurty arm or leg, no wonder we're up shit creek. And this was before Covid, things since aren just getting worse.

@knittingaddict is your gp aware that your mum no longer has her main carer? In most areas there is admission prevention which puts emergency short term care in place provided by community nursing teams to bridge the gap in these scenarios. They would step in while awaiting a proper package of care but you need a GP referral or if she is known to community nursing teams for other reasons ring their hub and ask for help

[quote notahappybunny123]@knittingaddict is your gp aware that your mum no longer has her main carer? In most areas there is admission prevention which puts emergency short term care in place provided by community nursing teams to bridge the gap in these scenarios. They would step in while awaiting a proper package of care but you need a GP referral or if she is known to community nursing teams for other reasons ring their hub and ask for help[/quote]
Yes he is and told my brother that there's nothing they can do and to contact social services. I'm going to my families area on Monday and we are phoning them then. Not good, is it?

The nurse already comes in the morning to give medication and has been for a year or so, but that's it so far.

@AndreaC67

The Chief Medical Officer is an external appointment and is not appointed by the government

Not exactly, Whitty was an adviser for another Govt dept and had the approval of the Prime Minister, without that approval, he wouldn't have been made CMO

The Chief Medical Officer is appointed following an external recruitment competition. It is not a government appointment.

@knittingaddict I would contact the gp again and also worth ringing adult social services and asking to refer your mum to the duty social worker as she needs urgent care and support if you feels she is unsafe at home with no care it would be a safeguarding issue (if you use that phrase you will be taken seriously) ,. I really hope she gets a package of care swiftly. Social care is pretty overrun right now.

@sausagepastapot

I have covid right now and I am absolutely fine.

Great.

Not everyone is, hence people dying

Being smug really isn't a nice trait.