Lib Dem Health and Social Care 🔶

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[Lib Dem Health and Social Care 🔶 @LibDemHealth]

❗️ 57% of nurses surveyed are either thinking about leaving their job or actively planning to leave.

❗️ Nurses are exhausted, undervalued, and can not give the level of care to their patients they would like.

[The RCN @theRCN]

The findings show nursing staff routinely working unpaid overtime, delaying or not taking annual leave and feeling exhausted.  Respondents also expressed a growing sense of disillusionment after 18 months’ fighting the pandemic.

[Dr Dan Goyal @danielgoyal]

Just to be clear:

Before Omicron we had:

~6k Hospitalised Covid Patients
~600 new admissions per day

And we were not coping!

Now we have:

~14k Hospitalised Covid Patients
~1,800 new admissions per day
~ 100k less staff

And This Government has decided to do…nothing. Right?

[Daisy Cooper MP 🔶 @libdemdaisy]

🧵 If ever proof was needed that the Government is asleep at the wheel with this staff shortage crisis, the Vaccine Minister's non-answers this morning just about sum it up. /1

[YoungMinds @YoungMindsUK]

"Waiting times for children’s mental health services would not be tolerated for physical treatment." https://t.co/eBCjTpE2xf

[Lib Dem Health and Social Care 🔶 @LibDemHealth]

❗️ Govt ignored warnings of Covid testing shortages.

❗️ Problem could have been avoided with better planning.

❗️ Pharmacies leader raised issue with @UKHSA in early December & asked for a plan but they never answered the question.

https://t.co/OvWDLL8t6I

[Lib Dem Health and Social Care 🔶 @LibDemHealth]

“On a night shift last wk people were waiting for 9 hrs plus for ambulances & I waited 3 hrs to offload my patient to hospital. Hospitals are seriously strained with no beds,”

Chaos unleashed on #NHS is likely to be worse in about two week’s time.

https://t.co/oYKGu87RbK

[Lib Dem Health and Social Care 🔶 @LibDemHealth]

"Our children have been failed again and again throughout this pandemic by Boris Johnson’s government."

“From air purifiers to rolling out the vaccine to teenagers, this Government has dragged its feet.
@munirawilson

👉 https://t.co/6H82x61TfQ

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

The government has promised 7,000 HEPA filtration units to schools. There are 24,000 schools. Assume 14 classrooms on average. Two units are required per classroom. That is 672,000. So the government is meeting 1% of need. This policy works only as a measure of incompetence.

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

Vaccines Minister Maggie Throup on @SkyNews doesn’t have a clue how many Briton’s are in self isolation or how many NHS trusts have declared critical incidents. What is this Government basing its planning on??

[Marisha Ray 🔸@marisharay.bsky.social @MarishaRayLD]

"@LibDems Education spokeswoman @munirawilson described the investment as "pocket change" compared to what was required to keep schools open."

@LDEA_UK @LibDemEducation
@LNethsingha @LibDemHealth
BBC News-More Covid absences expected as UK schools go back
https://t.co/xJqmJX0kin

[Lib Dem Health and Social Care 🔶 @LibDemHealth]

Govt. plan for keeping schools open make little sense, and will probably ensure further spread of #COVID.

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[Dr. Deepti Gurdasani @dgurdasani1]

Problem:
mass infection -> staff/student sickness -> educational disruption

Response:
stop contact tracing in schools
mandate attendance for children living with cases
combine classes (staff shortages)

Result:
mass infection -> staff/student sickness -> educational disruption

[Lib Dem Health and Social Care 🔶 @LibDemHealth]

Heart attack & stroke treatment is time critical.

Treatments such as clot-busters have short windows for a therapeutic affect.

Long delays for an ambulance to arrive & then sit in a queue outside A&E means many will not get the treatment they deserve.

https://t.co/IS7JGfb8F3

[Professor Susan Michie @SusanMichie]

The UK situation & what is needed. Signed by >100 international experts & authored by a multidisciplinary subset. Evidence-based. Plz read & RT if you agree that this contains important points (sadly lacking from UK MSM at present). https://t.co/ll7OG3HERx

[Lib Dem Health and Social Care 🔶 @LibDemHealth]

❗️ The @conservatives govt. has failed to protect the health of the people of this country, the NHS, and the economy.

❗️A triple whammy of fails that is building a legacy of long term illness, huge NHS waiting lists & a mountain of debt.

[Lib Dem Health and Social Care 🔶 @LibDemHealth]

❗️"Countries which tolerated high transmission have seen rises in.... mortality, healthcare worker shortages, & repeated lockdowns to control surges in case numbers."  

✅"Countries which suppressed transmission early saw reduced mortality & less economic damage."

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

An urgent call for global "vaccine-plus" action @bmj_latest today, by @trishgreenhalgh and >100 researchers and healthcare workers https://t.co/NF6fiJIqDc

[Lib Dem Health and Social Care 🔶 @LibDemHealth]

@LordRennard @haywardshott @ThomasMorrison @libdemdaisy Please do Chris.

[Lib Dem Health and Social Care 🔶 @LibDemHealth]

❗️The impact of govt. mismanagement of pandemic on the mental health of NHS staff is massive.

❗️One Clinic saw 5,000 NHS staff in its 1st 10 yrs, & is now seeing 650-700 staff per month.

❗️Demand has doubled in the last last year.

https://t.co/wXRDVxXKdn

[Natasha Loder @natashaloder]

The first hospitals to get hammered by Omicron and it is being driven by a shortage of staff.

[Lib Dem Health and Social Care 🔶 @LibDemHealth]

https://t.co/6EHRIjwuKx

[Lib Dem Health and Social Care 🔶 @LibDemHealth]

Shocking waiting times for management of children's mental health problems in many parts of the country.

https://t.co/BfRhyAihmY

[Helen Morgan MP 🔶 @HelenMorganMP]

This is a very concerning development on top of what was already a crisis. I’ve requested a briefing as soon as possible, and will be keeping up the pressure on @sajidjavid to provide emergency funding for our ambulance service, and a short-term emergency strategy to save lives.

[Professor Azeem Majeed @Azeem_Majeed]

There are nowhere near enough lateral flow tests for Covid-19 in England to allow the government’s policy of their indiscriminate use. Access to tests must be prioritised and clear guidance given on their use. My article for The Guardian. https://t.co/IIR5k9hFil