Where’s Boris

I hope so too Maw as these are unprecedented times (as we know). But thank you for getting my drift.

Right, to clarify, it is possible to experience more than one thing at a time. I have empathy with the medics working so hard in these terrible times. I feel concern that some of them may not have the correct PPE and therefore may be in a position to have to make a choice between saving a patient or saving themselves.

If people were losing fingers you’d stop the machines.

You want to stop treating people till it’s fixed?

What a silly comparison.

Care homes?
I’d be looking at the care home owners who run these very lucrative businesses
They should have bought in protection for their staff

Good point Urmstongran - but I would still hope that this time PHE can bail them out as it the workers and patients who will suffer ?

abandoning their

Hang on. Are these doctors you’re so concerned about the same ones that you just accused if abandoning no Thierry oath and letting patients die?

Or a different set of doctors that you suddenly feel empathy with.

Or maybe you think a change of tack will score more points.

Like I said, pretty vile.

Give Boris some slack here ladies please. He has been very ill and I am sure not happy not being at the reins but circumstances dictate otherwise at present.

coggie the medical and nursing professions are dealing with this on a daily basis, and every hospital has clear protocols in place to deal with that and other critical situations. Of course its a challenge but we don't always work in ideal circumstances. We do at least have plenty of Intensive Care bed capacity.

I wonder why we never see NHS staff speak directly to camera about their struggles to obtain PPE

I imagine they are discussing their concerns with their managers and/or medical defence union coggie?

Fair do’s if there isn’t any provision. Refuse to work. No-one could blame them in those circumstances.

Somehow though, I understand from PHE we are not at that stage.

So many countries and their elected governments are fighting this virus. Necessary supplies are in short supply world wide right now.
PHE are insisting that there is adequate protection at the moment for all on the front line in the NHS.

Care homes?
I’d be looking at the care home owners who run these very lucrative businesses.
They should have bought in protection for their staff.

At £50k per resident per year in most care homes, these owners are raking it in. Adequate PPE in their homes is their responsibility. It shouldn’t be for the government to provide.

So let me get this right a doctor who is boud by strict ethics is concerned about treating a Covid sufferer. The doctor sadly, does not have the correct PPE. His/her voicing concerns is a politically motivated act?

On the other hand he/she may not wish to become infected and die.

I think it is possible to admire the work of those on the frontline of the NHS and also be concerned about a lack of equipment and protection.

I don't get my information from tabloids.

I wonder why we never see NHS staff speak directly to camera about their struggles to obtain PPE.

Let’s not forget that not everyone voted for Boris.
Or Brexit.
I’d imagine there are some doctors in that cohort.

It’s not unrealistic to think that some of them might just be a tad politically motivated in their criticisms. They are only human after all with opinions and criticisms of their own of a government they didn’t vote for.

If people had a job where health and safety was lacking and people were losing fingers, everyone would be up in arms, wouldn't matter if the boss had coronavirus and was recovering, they'd be shouting fix it fix it! We are losing fingers here!

But because it's Boris Johnson it must be political so shut up.

Erm. Viruses and people's ability to stop people losing fingers (dying) aren't political.

The guy got the job, we just want him to do it.

I didn't vote for him but he's obviously needing time to recover. Quite frankly, I think the government will do about the same - with or without him, it makes no difference!

Thank you for that, GrannyLaine ,

I've got two loved one working on Covid wards and it's such a worry

It would be really good if some folk would wake up and see what an amazing job our NHS is doing in the face of this unprecedented pandemic. Of course its not perfect. Of course there are supply issues - its a worldwide problem. Our government hasn't cooked up the problem of PPE just to annoy the medical profession. For all those who have loved ones working on the front line, lets stop spreading tabloid fuelled nonsense and thank each and every one of them for the amazing job they are doing.

Annecan.

So you think Boris leads this Country on his own!!!!

Your question was a stupid one as far as I am concerned.You asked where he was,he is at Chequers,recuperating as he should be.

trisher - hopefully now Boris has had a life or death issue, it won't make it as easy as it would have been!

Maddyone - yes that definitely was the case should the NHS be overwhelmed - my neighbour's son is a Consultant Anaesthetist in ICU and told her that at her age she would not get a ventilator as there just weren't enough of them - but that seems to have been sorted as people of 100 years + have been recovering and going home - how?? Young fit people dying and very elderly people surviving - a lot of it doesn't make sense somehow?

Coggie - if it continues then I suspect there will be choices to be made - to work or not to work to protect themselves and their own families!

Right before you start digging your claws into me, I heard on the BBC today medics expressing concern that they may have to decide whether or not to treat people and that a lack of PPE may be a factor.

How do any of us know if this hasn't already happened?

Wake up, it's a shambles.

I’m pretty sure Trump later categorically denied any interest in the NHS.

Ok this is Donald Trump we are talking about - not the most honest man in the world, but after Boris’s experience in hospital, can you honestly imagine him selling it off?

JenniferEccles Trump said when he visited the UK that any trade deal would involve health services. It is a market US health services have been eyeing up for some time. One of the NHS chief executives moved on to a US company. More details here www.independent.co.uk/voices/general-election-brexit-nhs-boris-johnson-trump-us-trade-deal-a9179571.html
And don't think the virus will stop them because it won't.

Where is the proof that the government was/is planning to sell off the NHS to Donald Trump? There isn’t any of course.

I really thought we had heard the last of that stupid claim by Corbyn made out of desperation when he could see how the election was going.

It is absolutely vile to say doctors are letting people die. Initially doctors were told that there may be unpleasant choices to be made such as access to a ventilator because there were insufficient ventilators available, but that meant a choice between a person who was likely to recover and a person who wouldn’t be likely to recover. This is a fact, my daughter and son in law are doctors and they told me this. It was in official guidance to doctors. However it seems that the increase in ventilators and ICU beds has meant that such choices do not have to be made. It does not mean that a doctor may make a decision that a person would do so badly on a ventilator that they would choose not to put that person on a ventilator.

I am almost 'glad' that Boris actually caught it, because he is going to have a hell of a job selling off our NHS to Mr Trump and his cronies now, thank goodness!

They have literally spent the last decade stripping the NHS down to it's bare bones and would have got it to the point where we the great unwashed would have done anything to improve it - including selling it off to the US.

There is going to have to be some serious re-thinking of how they are going to proceed now and hopefully Donald, and all the MP's who have interests in the private healthcare and healthcare insurance markets will not be happy!