The NHS Health fall out from Covid-19 will be much wider but receive less coverage: hospitals are already cancelling loads of appointments and GPs doing telephone-only appts. People with chronic illnesses and disabilities will receive much worse care and also end up in A&E.
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I had to reschedule an appointment for the genetic condition that causes tumours to grow in my spinal cord in November because I had pneumonia. Next appointment they could give me was six months later. That’ll likely be cancelled too, for another six months.
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Also think about how many people, including your granny, won’t want to overload the health service until symptoms are extreme. Last time I saw my GP (after 10 days of vomiting & abdominal pain) I got bollocked for not going straight to A&E sooner & kept in for days, pre-Corona.
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During the election every doctor I saw was very open about the stresses and cuts that were hampering their care: they were overloaded then, even before a sudden deadly pandemic.
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Yep, I just get texts, then links to PDF letters saying they’ll reschedule appointments for my epilepsy and heart problem (probably linked) in “the coming months”
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