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Jun 2020
11:03pm, 17 Jun 2020
14,581 posts
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Ultra Sparkly Bridget (USB)
JR - I have spent the week dealing in language such as reset, restore and mitigate. Working to resume my service on 1st July, it is not going to be normal but we have to try. Certainly my organisation is focused on getting things moving again.
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Jun 2020
11:12pm, 17 Jun 2020
431 posts
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JR
Both my parents have had outpatients/treatment cancelled. My sisters GP had to virtually beg (after contacting several hospitals) to get her seen!
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Jun 2020
11:14pm, 17 Jun 2020
432 posts
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JR
I think the staff on the ground want stuff to restart ASAP - that’s certainly what has come across from those I know in medical profession. It seems it’s the government/trusts that are holding things back.
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Jun 2020
11:33pm, 17 Jun 2020
1,211 posts
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Grast_girl
Had a text from my GP this week saying to book routine smears etc. Seems they're happy to resume normal operations. Not sure I'm quite ready for that though. I'd rather get in for a hearing test at audiology, but that's at the hospital so will presumably have to wait.
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Jun 2020
11:34pm, 17 Jun 2020
7,419 posts
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Too Much Water
Would you want to reopen your services and then quickly close due to another outbreak. Think of the reputational damage.
I’d want to wait at least until 10 other trusts have been down that path so whatever has gone wrong (or indeed bad luck) is a generic rather than a specific thing.
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Jun 2020
12:11am, 18 Jun 2020
10,425 posts
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geordiegirl
Has anyone watched the Salisbury Poisinings. Watching with today’s covid eyes I’ve spent the whole time saying something you know it’s highly contagious- the verve age t can stay on fabric for 50 years but you’re walking around touching stuff and families still together & visiting in hospital with no PPE - I wonder if I’d have thought the same a year ago?
Anyway bed now I’m shattered.
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Jun 2020
12:24am, 18 Jun 2020
10,426 posts
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geordiegirl
Following from conversations above about appointments my uncle started chemo today. Pre covid I don’t think he’d have had the care he has. Docs appointment on the 1st June sent straight for MRI that night, biopsy next morning. Results by Friday - non Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Following week he had various appointments, CT scan last Thursday, result Monday (it has spread to hip and thigh none) chemical today.
He first sent to see about the lump under his arm 2 weeks prior to the first appr above.
Grateful he’s been seen so quick and feel for anyone who had had an appr cancelled.
Here is hoping and praying we get people seen who need it.
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Jun 2020
2:51am, 18 Jun 2020
51,615 posts
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plodding hippo
We are opening up in my Trust. We didnt completely shut down .
But yes there is a huge backlog
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Jun 2020
7:31am, 18 Jun 2020
35,206 posts
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DocM
Hubby has lots of half full operating lists. Many patients are declining to come, or to be swabbed before coming.
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Jun 2020
8:24am, 18 Jun 2020
14,582 posts
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Ultra Sparkly Bridget (USB)
We are about to find out how parents feel about coming in. Rule is only one adult with the child and no siblings. Plus those who don’t want to come anywhere near a hospital.
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