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This NHS has not enough staff to look after the ordinary work-load. Patients lie on stretchers in ambulances - waiting for a bed in A and E (personal experience in an English Hospital last autumn).
And, pray, where are the staffed beds? How many conference halls will Her Majesty commandeer? And having commandeered Conference Centres, where will it find competent doctors and competent nurses?
Amazing that the Organisations representing nurses, hospital doctors, general, practitioners are stricken dumb.
Are they under orders to keep quiet?
Maybe they are.
NHS England will not want to hear awkward comments from those those who might be punished.
As for the honourable members of the Parliament - the Whip?
Re: Coronavirus: NHS staff get power to keep patients in isolation as UK declares “serious threat”. Have we got enough competent staff?
Dear Editor
This NHS has not enough staff to look after the ordinary work-load. Patients lie on stretchers in ambulances - waiting for a bed in A and E (personal experience in an English Hospital last autumn).
And, pray, where are the staffed beds? How many conference halls will Her Majesty commandeer? And having commandeered Conference Centres, where will it find competent doctors and competent nurses?
Amazing that the Organisations representing nurses, hospital doctors, general, practitioners are stricken dumb.
Are they under orders to keep quiet?
Maybe they are.
NHS England will not want to hear awkward comments from those those who might be punished.
As for the honourable members of the Parliament - the Whip?
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