Close colleague was present when three patients died within forty-five minutes, because of the numbers of ill patients being treated she was the ONLY person at their bedside as they passed away... the only slight blessing was that they were all anaesthetised.
Now we're re-starting our elective work.. very long process and for the near future it will cause a major change to every Trust doing any kind of surgery, Govt guidelines are changing quite regularly, they've just dropped the need for patients to self-isolate post-op for 14 days, link that with the current 14 day self-isolation pre-op (including any one you are living with) and somebody who has just got back to work would have been asked to take a month out probably without pay to have an op.
Add to that your local hospital will now have to have a completely isolated area where 'protected' patients come and go with no contact with anybody else, staff working in this area are isolated with no movement between here and the rest of the hospital, if you leave the protected area you can't go back in.... utter nightmare to run in a busy Trust.... but these are rules...
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