Quote ="Sadfish"I worked for the NHS in January 2020, and yes, we did know there was a virus out there, but quite honestly we didn't know if the virus would be contained like previous sars virus or not, we entered into discussions about the plans we had which were adequate for all but the worst case scenarios (ebola style) and when the impact of the virus started to hit we enacted those plans.
In the main they worked, we extended our A&E into other wards and discharged people into the community who we could, the only issues we encountered that perhaps could have been done better was centred around testing and tracing of people coming into hospital and being discharged to nursing homes, but to be honest, that is more a government issues than an NHS one.
The other issue was one of staff getting ill and technology, it took us a while to get used to working mostly off site, but supporting people on site, but we worked it out.'"
So why did nursing homes have to source their own PPE when ordinarily it was provided by the NHS (for nursing home which were predominantly used by the local primary care trusts)? I’ve seen emails as part of my work on going concern where the NHS basically said “dunno mate, do it yourself). That’s not Boris fault. It’s purely on the NHS
The NHS was woefully unprepared which is remarkable given the amount of “management” they have on eye watering salaries for this exact situation. The right will claim the NHS is on its knees because of immigrants. No it’s not. It’s all the useless s at the top of the food chain on stupid salaries
