Consequences
Again one is left to ask if the remedy is proving worse than the disease
The Sunday Times reports today that as a consequence of the action taken to free up hospital capacity, an additional 1.3 million people have been added NHS waiting lists. How many cancer patients amongst this number will die because their treatment was delayed for too long?
Another tactic to free up capacity, and one that has had immediate consequences, saw 15,000 people returned to the community from 17th March. Many were transferred to care homes. Coronavirus is now sweeping through those homes, and the numbers of older people dying is shocking.
Again one is left to ask if the remedy is proving worse than the disease.
10th May 2020