NHS winter crisis caused by Covid or, could it be something else?
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NB. That bed number was smaller in 2020 and is even smaller in 2021, I can’t find a more up to date graph. I will swap in when I do.
Mind you, after 20 months of a pandemic, you’d have thought that the government would have created some more NHS hospital facilities, with more staffing and capacity to avoid further pressure on the NHS. But no, instead, they cut another 5,000 beds, sacked thousands of care home staff with the result that medically fit patients can’t be discharged and have now threatened NHS workers with the sack and let waiting lists reach record levels. And yet, it’s still our fault!!