‘Patients have until June 23 to opt out and most don’t even know about it’
Thanks @MarinaHyde; we're urging a delay until patients+public have had time to be aware of/understand this, and so they can choose to opt-out if they wish https://t.co/3eP3ayJPLS
https://t.co/zYs60VlgAt
I’ve been critical of @DavidLammy. No longer. This is too important. He spoke today for all of us who love our country and what it once stood for. Johnson will use this law in the most wicked way imaginable. I know him only too well.
Another plug for this. I spent a couple of weeks talking to doctors who have been fighting this pandemic for a year now. It raises serious questions about how much more we can ask NHS staff to do and how we help them to recover when the much-needed moments of respite come.
Covid intensive care is: hourly arterial blood samples to check oxygen levels, lines placed into arteries to sample them, lines in the jugular vein to replace electrolytes we have driven out of the body by trying to flush excess water from the lungs, lines into the neck and groin