steve0
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Not a football thread. No apologies.
It’s tragic for me that after 40 years in the NHS I will soon leave it with waiting lists as bad as when I joined. The rumblings about the NHS not being fit for purpose are beginning. Watch out for backbenchers and media trumpeting the arrival of the private sector on its shiny new white charger to save it. None of the facts below will be seen or heard in newspapers or on tv - achieved in spite of COVID and in spite of this government:
1. Last year 242,307 Covid patients were treated in hospital.
2. In January this year 101,956 were treated.
3. In addition more than 6m elective treatments were completed in 2020, despite Covid.
4. More than two cancer procedures were carried out for every one patient treated for Covid.
5. There were >18.7 million A&E attendances.
6. 25,199 cancer patients started treatment in December, 555 more than in the same month the previous year.
7. 200,940 people were referred for cancer checks, 13,129 more than December 2019.
8. Waiting times for elective surgery fell by more than 40% between July and the end of the year.
9. Hospitals are treating over a thousand more patients with COVID than they did at the peak of the first wave.
10. The NHS is currently treating more people with COVID in critical care than hospitals did for all conditions this time last year in addition to the other critical care activity.
And yet despite the criticisms …here we are…still standing…still there for you largely free at the point of care. Not perfect but available to everyone and better than what they have planned for us
There will come a time soon when we turn around (when we need it) and say ‘where the hell did that go?’
Rant over. Back to the football. UTB
It’s tragic for me that after 40 years in the NHS I will soon leave it with waiting lists as bad as when I joined. The rumblings about the NHS not being fit for purpose are beginning. Watch out for backbenchers and media trumpeting the arrival of the private sector on its shiny new white charger to save it. None of the facts below will be seen or heard in newspapers or on tv - achieved in spite of COVID and in spite of this government:
1. Last year 242,307 Covid patients were treated in hospital.
2. In January this year 101,956 were treated.
3. In addition more than 6m elective treatments were completed in 2020, despite Covid.
4. More than two cancer procedures were carried out for every one patient treated for Covid.
5. There were >18.7 million A&E attendances.
6. 25,199 cancer patients started treatment in December, 555 more than in the same month the previous year.
7. 200,940 people were referred for cancer checks, 13,129 more than December 2019.
8. Waiting times for elective surgery fell by more than 40% between July and the end of the year.
9. Hospitals are treating over a thousand more patients with COVID than they did at the peak of the first wave.
10. The NHS is currently treating more people with COVID in critical care than hospitals did for all conditions this time last year in addition to the other critical care activity.
And yet despite the criticisms …here we are…still standing…still there for you largely free at the point of care. Not perfect but available to everyone and better than what they have planned for us
There will come a time soon when we turn around (when we need it) and say ‘where the hell did that go?’
Rant over. Back to the football. UTB