it s not just covid. we are dealing with a lot of other problems, too. our emergency departments and hospitals are under huge pressure and there are long queues of patients waiting for beds in the hospital which makes things very busy in emergency departments. primary care, our gp colleagues are under a lot of pressure as well, so at the moment, this winter, it is notjust about intensive care and finding intensive care beds, it is about the wider strain on the nhs and how we juggle the range of problems, one of which is covid. and one thing knocks to another, presumably. one of the consequences you do not know yet is whether the restrictions imposed on care homes will delay discharge, for example, for elderly patients who perhaps need to go into a residential care facility and at the moment are still in hospital. there are so many unponderables with this, even before you get into whether or not omicron is more dangerous for patients than delta has been. that is exactly right. the probl
of other problems, too. our emergency departments and hospitals are under huge pressure and there are long queues of patients waiting for beds in the hospital which makes things very busy in emergency departments. primary care, our gp colleagues are under a lot of pressure as well, so at the moment, this winter, it is notjust about intensive care and finding intensive care beds, it is about the wider strain on the nhs and how we juggle the range of problems, one of which is covid. and one thing knocks to another, presumably. one of the consequences you do not know yet is whether the restrictions imposed on care homes will delay discharge, for example, for elderly patients who perhaps need to go into a residential care facility and at the moment are still in hospital. there are so many unponderables with this, even before you get into whether or not omicron is more dangerous for patients than delta has been? that is exactly right. the problem that the nhs has its uncertainty. we have to