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  Under the cover of Covid-19, the NHS stopped being our National health service

  Posted by Tia on 19 October 2020 at 1:09 pm

  The continued warnings by senior health chiefs that the NHS won’t be the same as before, raises concerns that we’re being conditioned to accept a service which no longer meets all our health needs.

  ‘Protect the NHS’ has been the slogan of 2020 so far in the UK. It’s ostensibly all been about Covid-19, but is there be another real agenda?

  Back in March, the NHS did two things. There was a major hospital inpatient discharge programme, to make way for a deluge of Covid-19 patients which in the end never materialised.

  And there was also the cancellation of ‘non-urgent elective operations’ to take effect from April 15 at the latest, to last for three months.

  The impact of both of these policies seems to have been disastrous. The combination of people being (a) encouraged to ‘protect the NHS’ by not using it for non-Covid problems and (b) patients being too scared to go to doctors’ surgeries and into hospitals because of fear of being infected with the virus, has created a huge backlog of cases.

  Dr. Karol Sikora, a leading oncologist, estimates that around 20,000 cancer diagnoses were missed in April alone, going by the usual monthly averages and has continued ever since then.

  Saffron Cordery, deputy chief executive of NHS Providers, a body which looks after NHS Trusts in England, said that while it was “absolutely imperative” that the NHS got started again, and stated: “We’ve got to be clear that’s going to come relatively slowly and it’s not going to be the service that people had previously.”

  Cordery cited concerns over PPE supplies for staff, and linked the return of the NHS doing non-emergency work to a government Covid-19 Test and Trace programme being in place.

  While we all want to make sure hospital staff are as safe as possible and that hospitals themselves are safe for patients, the idea that non-emergency work is conditional on surveillance represents a significant moving of the goalposts.

  Remember, the aim of the hospital bed clearance programme and the suspension of non-urgent operations was to “free up” capacity for Covid-19 patients and to stop the health system being “overwhelmed.”

  Now, even though the deluge never came (six months ago April alone, it was reported that NHS hospitals had four times as many empty beds as normal), people are still being denied treatment.

  For the last six months, we haven’t had a National Health Service, but a National Covid-19 Service, one used to solely provide statistics to the government with their project fear to continue the claims of a killer pandemic we all know now to be lies.

  Covid-19 is now being used by the NHS as a cover to introduce longer-term reductions in services which the patients have never given their consent to – and which are against the our interests.

  They need to remember our taxes pay for this service and thy work for the public, not the government project fear agenda.

  

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