Support the health service to provide the most needed healthcare
Designate specific facilities and resources to Covid treatment - Nightingale centres plus a number of most appropriately located and equipped health facilities reconfigured and staffed. Allow the other 70% of the health system to operate 'normally', with enhanced screening, testing and triage facilities before admission to protect their continuing operation.
Why the contribution is important
It is widely discussed that number of people adversely affected due to the withdrawal of the majority of ongoing health care services will dwarf those affected by Covid, and in the medium and long term could be much more lethal.
Even if our initial reaction to abandon ongoing healthcare services to focus on Covid was required to build capacity in the short-term (and this is arguable), the treatment of Covid patients going forward must be delivered using a mechanism that doesn't paralyse the rest of the health service, on the simple basis of saving and ensuring the quality of life for as many Scottish people as possible.
Even if our initial reaction to abandon ongoing healthcare services to focus on Covid was required to build capacity in the short-term (and this is arguable), the treatment of Covid patients going forward must be delivered using a mechanism that doesn't paralyse the rest of the health service, on the simple basis of saving and ensuring the quality of life for as many Scottish people as possible.
by iheigh on May 05, 2020 at 05:11PM
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Posted by CBunch May 08, 2020 at 02:51
My mothers only highlights over the past few months have be to go for Blood tests and clinic appointments. While this is a sad and sorrowful situation, I am aware of other clinics also essential in their ongoing care for conditions which are currently closed. This is of high concern as should these conditions worsen or develop the outcomes could also become Critical Care for NHS along with other Care Services.
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