same

oops I did it again


ive never agreed with how they’ve made covid the one and only illness effecting the population in 2020/2021
Oooo prepare for the onslaught

Although you may escape that being a mod
While I respect everything they've done this year, I see it from the other side. I see the devastation that it's caused. I've seen people without hearing aids because audiology have shut and no one knows how's to contact them, I see mobility issues, I see them scared to leave their home, or that now they can't because their health has suffered.
I see services cut through commissioner's/ councils having to save money, I see OT's not coming out, I see dementia services not operating and the knock on effect to the person suffering and their families - then as a consequence the police having to get involved where they're wandering the streets at 3am putting themselves and others in danger because services aren't operating. Ive seen their elderly husband/ wife taken into hospital through exhaustion looking after them alone for a year (FYI, carers suffer more and die earlier than the poorly relative because of exhaustion)
I've seen people discharged from hospital with a care plan that wasn't even for them!! That meaning they've missed out on crucial aftercare.
I've seen people with cancer not being able to see a specialist when it's clear their cancer has spread, but only have a phone call instead.
I've seen the elderly go hungry and without medication, or been on medication that needs reviewed but no one will even come out to them - instead some jumped up receptionist is asking them to go to the surgery ... when they can't even get up their
bleeping stairs for a wee ffs.
I could go on
Please don't tell me that they've been treated the best, because they bloody haven't!
I agree with the point of your post - but I just wanted to interject and say that as an allied health professional myself in the NHS I’m very certain that no NHS physiotherapists were furloughed. The ones that couldn’t carry out clinics were redeployed into acute settings or community rehab. Maybe at worst they were doing video assessment but the NHS didn’t put any on the furlough scheme that I know of within my trust or to my knowledge from people in my wider network. Maybe it happened but in very rare cases (perhaps if that physio had a health condition which meant they needed to shield for an extended period of time). Or if that physio was working in such a niche setting their skills couldn’t be transferred possibly

Physios work a lot with the lungs aswell so a lot of them got sent to ICU to do suction and chest rehab.
Totally agree about GPs though. Mine still won’t see me yet I can get my hair done, eyes tested, teeth done, botox done, nails done

Why are they still hiding under the guise of covid?!
Maybe it depends on the health authority. I deal with someone who's son is a physio, and have been told that he was furloughed, so can only speak from what I've heard personally to generalise was maybe wrong, but I can only speak from what I've heard myself