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> but given that the number of acute beds in the NHS wasn't overwhelmed, that's arguable. The number of acute beds in the NHS was overwhelmed! They were conve
by DanBC 6y ago
> but given that the number of acute beds in the NHS wasn't overwhelmed, that's arguable.
The number of acute beds in the NHS was overwhelmed! They were converting operating theatres into ITUs; they dropped the nurse to patient ratios from 1:1 to 1:6; they cancelled elective surgeries to cope with the surge.
The other thing they did is to tell care and nursing homes that elderly people with covid would not be admitted to hospital and would have to die in the home. They also discharged elderly people with suspected covid back to those homes.
- Angostura 6y agoFor some mesures of 'overwhelmed'. Obviously, the standard number of ITU beds wasn't going to be able to accomodate the pandemic, so yes they converted other facilities into ITU beds. The fact is that we didn't run out of these ITU beds and we easily could have.