Posted on 01/04/2018 7:48:21 AM PST by Brilliant
Every hospital in the country has been ordered to cancel all non-urgent surgery until at least February in an unprecedented step...
The instructions... which will see result in around 50,000 operations being axed - followed claims by senior doctors that patients were being treated in “third world” conditions...
Hospitals are reporting growing chaos, with a spike in winter flu leaving frail patients facing 12-hour waits, and some units running out of corridor space.
[The] NHS medical director...ordered NHS trusts to stop taking all but the most urgent cases, closing outpatients clinics for weeks as well as cancelling around 50,000 planned operations...
The chaos follows a rise in flu cases when many hospitals were already close to capacity, with high numbers of frail patients stuck on wards for want of social care.
By Tuesday night 12 NHS trusts... had declared they had reached the maximum state of emergency...
In addition, 10 hospital trusts said they were at the highest level of pressure - better known as a “black alert” - under a four-point scale of “Operational Pressures Escalation Levels” used to bring emergency plans into motion, when patient safety is at risk...
Many more trusts refused to provide information about pressure levels, with several saying NHS England no longer allowed them to divulge the information...
A number of NHS trust chief executives described the pressure as “relentless” with several...saying they had never seen such pressure during 30 years in the health service.
Dr Nick Scriven, president of the Society for Acute Medicine, said: "The position at the moment is as bad as I've ever known. We are simply not coping, we were at full capacity before the sorts of pressures that we should be able to manage - like a rise in flu - is pushing us over the edge..."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Now that we have Obamacare, I don't think we are any more prepared. I would admit that we weren't well prepared even before Obamacare, but the government has been running the healthcare system in this country for 100 years anyway. The enactment of Obamacare was just when we finally admitted it. Instead of letting the government run the healthcare system, we should have gotten the government out of the business of restricting the number of doctors and the amount of investment in the healthcare industry.
But I remember the opening ceremonies of the 2012 Olympics where the NHS was touted as Britain’s finest achievement. Patients, doctors, nurses all dancing with hospital beds. Was this not an accurate portrayal?
Ain’t “universal health care” great?
Yes, but it’s free (if you don’t count the heavy taxes to pay for it).
Socialism is a failure that many are eager and more than willing to repeat.
Also, the NHS issued an order that read: “Your hangover is not our emergency.”
Of course, this is not showing up on the American edition of The Guardian which slams American healthcare every day.
Ping.
And the British Left and their media are SOOOO proud of the NHS.
Geez, sounds like an announcement from a third world country.
I remember that. Before Brexit and Trump./s
The truth is with financial pressures on hospitals they cannot afford excess capacity. This could be happening here shortly.
“Many more trusts refused to provide information about pressure levels, with several saying NHS England no longer allowed them to divulge the information...”
So Brits are forced at gunpoint to pay for it but they’re forbidden from learning about silly little things like service levels, patient outcomes, etc.
Seems fair.
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And the country’s leadership will continue to ignore the cause of this chaos until citizens feel like they are living in Venezuela.
I wonder if their tidal wave of Muslim invaders is having an effect.
#2 They did not return the beds to the hospitals.
They probably took them home after the ceremony as they are comfortable.
That is why there is a shortage....
I’ve read that sufficient levels of vitamin d protects you from influenza. It’s hard for anyone to get enough vitamin d from the sun in England. Having a higher level of melanin would make it even more difficult as darker skin keeps you from readily absorbing vitamin d.
A flu epidemic could be more severe/widespread among certain demographics.
For those too embarrassed to ask.....
The National Health Service (NHS) is the name used for each of the four public health services in the United Kingdom - the National Health Service in England, NHS Scotland, NHS Wales, and Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland - as well as a term to describe them collectively.
I know the system well. At the level of ‘leadership’ and ‘administration’ it is chock-full of smarmy academics who often suck at their jobs - but are good at self-promotion. Like all things socialist, it winds up being an extremely hierarchical system in which there are the ‘lords’ and the little people (i.e. those who get their operations cancelled).
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