The NHS isn’t ‘coping’ with #Omicron – just ask doctors and patients | Rachel Clarke | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/15/nhs-coping-doctors-patients-omicron
The greater the pressures, the lower the standards of care we can provide. […] What the prime minister announced, in effect, in his press conference was the decision to turn a blind eye to preventable dying – to knowingly sweep it under the carpet.
Is it any wonder that record numbers of staff are quitting the NHS frontline? More than 27,000 people voluntarily resigned from the NHS from July to September last year, the highest number on record. Too often on the wards I see nurses or doctors breaking down in tears. I know colleagues who have seriously contemplated suicide. Burnout, depression and post-Covid PTSD are rife. We are dismissed as crying wolf, blamed for bleating incessantly about exaggerated winter crises. But only someone privileged enough not to know, or have been, an NHS patient this January could possibly pretend the NHS is coping
