| Comment | I agree with the sentiment but many departments were basically sat around twiddling their thumbs in Scotland.
Generally speaking ICUs etc., and it was GPs that got the absolute brunt of it. To at least some extent the 'burden' was due to procedures that took much longer now (e.g. a dentist pal was saying they needed to basically clean the room after every single person), or a friend who couldn't get a bed because half of them were reserved for COVID cases (which weren't there).
Cardiac admissions in particular *halved*, which is more problematic than anything.
My boss in addictions put it well once: the problem with the NHS is that as you cut services, managers start to see their metrics *improve* (basically as people get bundled out too fast), so a poorly funded and serviced NHS is quite a low-hanging fruit. |
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