Hospital and Covid

[mikeydt1]

some papers reporting this morning again that most operations to be cancelled and something which doesn't bode well.

'we can't simply turn away those with covid from hospital who are sceptic or have breathing issues but it does mean that those with other stuff wouldn't be able to get a bed' can't make it up really.

 

[Alfie Foster]

This is so scary..I wish this pandemic would end soon

 

[mikeyB]

As surgeons are sitting around doing not a lot, why don’t they commandeer private hospitals to catch up on elective surgery?

 

[trophywench]

Cos some of them have nowhere near the same facilities as an NHS hospital to ensure the after-care - especially if the patient happens to need ITU post-op. I haven't worked out as yet what all the GPs from our practice are up to, either. Most of them didn't work Monday to Friday even last year, let alone this one. I do know about the pressure of continuous CPD, so fine. But you would expect there to be more than one out of 10 working some days.

 

[Davein]

Last Friday morning I spent nearly two hours at my surgery followed by four hours in the city hospital. I have a blood clot on my lung and a 'massive' clot in my upper leg. When I was first treated for this 3 months ago. I had the sole attention of two doctors and two radiologists- there were literally no other patients about in the scanning suite apart from a couple of inpatients. Scans which normally had a waiting time of three weeks were done within hours. I was not admitted as an emergency patient.
Unfortunately the clot busting drugs I was prescribed at the hospital were not continued by my local surgery. So treatment I should have received for 6 months, I will now have to receive for my lifetime. Regular scans, blood tests and other tests and increased risk of internal bleeding because the local gps never followed up.
Fortunately the cancer services have continued throughout but we are in Cornwall which has consistently had low rates of covid infections, hence the tier one classification.