Luton Outlaws - Independent Message Board for Luton Town FC

I'm going to agree with your last sentence.

I spent most of the lockdown trying to keep staffing levels at a small DGH on the edge of manchester stable.

staff of all types were at a shortage because of people either getting covid or having to isolate. I recall once case where the substantive worker was off with covid, the replacement had to isolate and then their replaceent got covid! Charge rates from agencies for temporary staff were through the roof. It's easy to say all this was unnecessary, but we lost workers to covid sometimes for months at a time and sometimes for good.

we kept things running, but only because elective surgery and non urgent treatments were cancelled. if this hadn't happened from my experience I believe our health system would have collapsed in the way we saw in some other countries. I know this is only my experience, and you probably have a graph that an incel made that shows something else.