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around 15% of the workforce there have covid or are isolating. from pausing procedures to critical incidents, several hospital trusts in england and one in wales have now taken steps to cope with the pressure. if you have been waiting for a hip operation or something along those lines, you are going to be delayed in that and that doesn t feel like a minor issue for those people, so we will see some additional challenges for people facing further delays and that then adds to the ongoing issue of backlog of cases in the system. in a move which could improve the availability of tests, people who get a positive lateral flow result will soon not need a follow up pcr test, but will still have to isolate. what we have got, actually, is many, many more lateral flow tests and they are really accurate when you have a very infectious variant like omicron, so, actually, what we do all the time islook at what makes sense, is look at what makes sense, we don t need to do things which are unnecessary
emergency wards. we have seen this trend throughout the pandemic. the nhs doesn t become overwhelmed, what happens is everything moves more slowly, everything takes longer and everything sort of feels like it grinds to a halt. find everything sort of feels like it grinds to a halt. everything sort of feels like it grinds to a halt. and it grinds to a halt but particularly grinds to a halt. and it grinds to a halt but particularly for grinds to a halt. and it grinds to a halt but particularly for people - grinds to a halt. and it grinds to a l halt but particularly for people who have nonurgent procedure is that are waiting for, say a hip operation, someone who is in extreme pain, absolute agony but they are going to have to wait even longer for the hip operation. i have to wait even longer for the hip o eration. ~ ., ., ., , operation. i know and that is heartbreaking operation. i know and that is heartbreaking because - operation. i know and that is heartbreaking because you l