@PippaCrerar There are 223 NHS trusts in the UK. So, 1 in 10 have declared critical incidents.
This is not a "war footing" unless your next move is surrender.
…For 999 calls to be answered, for ambulance handovers, and to be seen promptly in A&E Departments. And, despite trusts working incredibly hard to avoid this, trusts are now having to delay planned care again. Clear, regrettable, impact on quality of care for patients. 20/24
@NHSMillion someone needs to help us.
Hospitals have no capacity and ambulances cannot offload patients. This is happening all over the country. Service failure and danger to our patients as we cannot safely look after people.
Torbay hospital tonight - 22 ambulances outside
11,464 cases in children today.
How many next week will be starting the summer holidays isolating, inc Educational staff ?
How many will spend time in hospital ?
And what of NHS staff seeing more people their age, in ICU, on ventilation ?
#coronavirus#COVID19#SARSCoV2
Wow. No.10 blocked data on variants in schools before dropping masks. Later PHE asked if they could release data & were told "release some information but keep it vague & release alongside everything else to make the situation look not as bad as it is.”🧵
https://t.co/Ehw1w6Al6w
@MattHancock do you think we forgot everything you have said. We know you are lying. You cannot keep skirting around this and now have to admit it. You DID say hospital to care home transfers would be tested. Now you say there was no capacity for that. Admit it! #torylies
NEWS: Everybody going from hospital into social care will be tested for #coronavirus & isolated whilst the result comes through to protect those most in need.
#DowningStreetBriefing
I cannot believe they’re now trying to blame care workers for the spread in care homes - let’s just remember all those poor carers who had no PPE, wore bin bags, cobbled together masks, without adequate testing, and many of whom paid the ultimate price.
As the Cummings circus begins, please can no-one lose sight of the fact that we are talking about human beings - in their thousands - who did not have to die.
Who suffocated to death, before doctors like me.
Who were loved.
Who mattered.
Who could have been saved.
People.
How is NOT mainstream news that B.1.617.2 so-called Indian variant has spread so much that it's now in every region in England? That it's considered "high risk" for transmissibility and there is some vaccine escape compared to Kent variant? AND it's becoming the dominant variant.
The evidence we heard today must *at least* lead to action NOW. Kids & young adults are unvaccinated. Many older adults are only partially vaccinated. There’s a new variant spreading. Reinstate face masks mandate in schools. Ventilate all shared indoor spaces. There’s no excuse.