NHS summer crisis as major hospital cancels planned operations for two days
Put the blame for this where it belongs: the Conservative government.
The Tories spent the last 11 years defunding the National Health Service because they wanted to make it seem incapable of providing the treatment UK citizens need.
They thought that this would make privatising NHS services more palatable.
But they didn’t count on the arrival of a major pandemic that would highlight the fact that the Tories’ cuts have weakened the service.
Most particularly, the Tories did not expect to show us all how poor private services would be, when they outsourced Covid services like contact tracing to the privateers.
So now we know that delays in operations – that may be fatal to the patients – have been caused deliberately by the Conservatives.
Their decision to defund the NHS is causing delay, pain, and even death.
One of the largest hospitals in the country has cancelled all its planned operations for Thursday and Friday because of a lack of beds and space in intensive care.
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, which has more than 1,100 beds, has had to stop dozens of elective operations, including liver transplants, because of increasing numbers of coronavirus patients as well as wider demand.
The hospital’s intensive care unit, one of the largest in Europe, was full on Thursday with 10 patients in the wider hospital on a watch list who may need a bed in the critical care unit. This meant there were no spare beds for planned operations and transplants where patients would need an ICU bed post-surgery.
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But the sheep that vote Tory think there doing something clapping for the NHS…
They don’t need clapping they need a wage, more staff and a government that gives a stuff and doesn’t want to just privatise it as quick as possible! But keep on eating that yummy propaganda from the MSM. When the NHS is no more and you have to pay maybe just maybe you’re be self aware enought to realise voting Tory scum it’s your fault!