JM14
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I know im not denying it, I was stating this wasnt a result of lockdown and more the impact of covid. If a hospital is running close to capacity, huge numbers of staff are off sick or isolating and hospitals arent safe environments for the vulnerable, obviously routine things arent going to get done, the more covid cases we have = more hospitalisations = limited resources already stretched and people miss out on treatments.It was reported in various news sources a few weeks back JM.
Up to 740,000 potential cancer cases 'missed' by GPs during pandemic
A damning report also warned that the NHS backlog could swell to 12 million – or one in five people – by March 2025.www.google.com
Law of averages doesn't bode well for the workload for cancer specialists in the coming months and years.
Not putting any restrictions in place and allowing covid to spread more than it did would have only made this worse