Non Urgent Care Cancelled

[mikeydt1]

seems that around the country there is now a pattern following where hospitals are cancelling non urgent care in favour of treating those with Covid but where does this leave people with other issues which need hospital treatment?

this is what BMA had to say ' BMA, which represents around 160,000 doctors in the UK, says hospitals have too few beds and staff to keep hip replacements, cataract surgery and other non-emergency operations going.

Our hospital there have been no outpatients open since March and other services designed to help people have been disbanded.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

On the Zoom chat this afternoon @SB2015 mentioned some continuing face-to-face appointments

I have had 2 phone appointments and a ‘remote’ pump start.

@pinemartin was mentioning ‘virtual‘ foot clinics too, though I’ve NO idea how those work!

Virtual feet?

Well, well, I've just had a letter offering me a podiatry appointment at my local place, and to phone them or email to book. Please note (it says) it could either be a face to face or virtual appointment. If I don't respond within 2 weeks they will take me off their books. I'd like to still...

forum.diabetes.org.uk

It’s a very different time that’s for sure!

 

[Ralph-YK]

I've not had a diabetes related appointment.
Non diabetes, I've had phone appointments, including a follow up, exam appointments & a scan.
Used to be twice yearly visits to hospital to have info on my defibrillator checked. Last December I was given a 'base' unit that has a sim card (as in mobile phone network) in it. It sits at the bottom of my bed. It's meant to automatically read data from my defib when I'm in bed, and send it to the hospital. Instead of going in this year, they've rung me once.
No appointment or mention of one with the consultant in over a year. Other hospital I was dealing with this week mentioned a phone appointment; in December; for my heart.
It depends on what they think is needed, from what I can see.

 

[Paulbreen]

Good evening from Germany Guys,
I can’t imagine what’s going on over there especially for the people who still need their treatment, diabetic related or otherwise.
This year since the end of February I have has a stent fitted in my heart, I broke my leg at work and was in hospital for 6 weeks, I’m still at the hospital every 4 weeks with my surgeon for that and I’m having various treatments to get the bones to heal, I go to 3 hrs physio every week day, I’ve also had 3 CAT scans, 2 MRI scans, the hospital’s here seem to be running as normal but just a bit more attention to health and safety going on

 

[mikeydt1]

they have said that cardiac along with cancer care to continue along with diagnostics, not sure what would happen if you need surgical intervention which doesn't fit in to the categories.

i was just ordering some prescriptions the other day and was checking something when i noticed that it has now been nearly a year since seeing anyone for fibrosis. did get a letter during the last lockdown that they were trying to find some way to see me, nothing since.

around here i have spoken to people who know people who have had their cancer treatments delayed only later to find it had then spread!

 

[mikeyB]

Well, I live in Lancashire too, and I have had three outpatient appointments, plus a video appointment from Liverpool since all this Covid business kicked off. So where is your hospital? Two were in Blackburn, one in Cltheroe, an outreach Diabetic Consultant appointment, which is routine rather than a Covid determined set up. My Diabetes team are working normally, monitoring me through Librelink.

I am due a colonoscopy, which has been delayed, I know not why, because there is little face to face interaction during a colonoscopy, except perhaps for Boris Johnson who talks through his arse most of the time.