COVID-19 — Coronavirus

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SilverFox2 said:
Actually pensioners continue to pay tax, if its a cost thing then perhaps those who have never paid into the insurance scheme should be sacrificed rather than those who are fully paid up members?
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They don’t pay NI though...
 
karen7 said:
The care home question keeps coming up..

Because most care home residents live with frailty and multiple medical conditions, there may be occasions where paramedics, general practitioners, or other healthcare professionals make decisions not to escalate their care to hospital. These decisions will not be taken lightly and care home staff must be prepared to work with healthcare providers to support families and residents if such difficult decisions have to be taken.

Healthcare professionals may find the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) to be a useful resource in making and discussing escalation decisions. 13 At the time of writing, the NICE guidance on escalation of COVID positive patients to critical care suggests frailty will play an important part in decision-making.14 It has been suggested that those with a CFS of 5 or more are less likely to benefit from critical care. Primary care providers may wish to consider this in their discussions with residents and relatives, and decisions about escalation to acute care

https://www.bgs.org.uk/resources/covid-19-managing-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-care-homes
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I'm sure this is all true Karen and we've posted about it - albeit in much less detail - before.

But the above is very different from a blanket "anyone over 75 is not going to hospital,". Which is diabolical if true.
 
Has anyone whose registered for the NHS Volunteer scheme been able to master the App they asked us to download? Maybe it’s just me?
 
SilverFox2 said:
Thanks for that Karen.
I remember some years ago when my mum suffered a stroke and when GP came round to our house and confirmed it he asked did we really want her to go to hospital. Of course we said naively she deserves the best treatment possible.
Hospital gave her a bed and consultant said if as expected she had a heart attack or similar they would not assist her.recovery I was amazed and pointed out her fully paid up membership of the NI club, he replied it was hospital policy for older people.

My point is perhaps I should have listened to the GPs hint and left her to be treated at home.
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It has always been the case that hard decisions are made with elderley patients,people just don't want to hear it,you did the best that you could as a son so don't worry about that lovely
 
I work for The Coop Group, they are spending millions installing extra walk in body storage/cold rooms at any and every funeral home that has the possibility of converting space. Garages, archive rooms, locker/changing rooms, any space that can be better served as being a cold room, is going to be one. The numbers are frightening. I’m looking at 11 branches now, £1.2m spend to create capacity for roughly an extra 700 bodies. And that’s just over 11 funeral homes, not all in the London area either. Coop has over 1000 branches.
 
Chippy_boy said:
I'm sure this is all true Karen and we've posted about it - albeit in much less detail - before.

But the above is very different from a blanket "anyone over 75 is not going to hospital,". Which is diabolical if true.
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I haven't seen that interview so i can 't really comment on it
 
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