Perspective

[knewmans]

My hospital had no covid patients in September, 28 end October with 314 deaths since March and yesterday -

As of 21 January 2021 at St George’s:

85 Covid-19 positive patients are being cared for in intensive care
264 Covid-19 positive patients are being cared for on our wards

564 patients have sadly died and tested positive for Covid-19 (since March 2020).

For me that means that the kidney transplant list is shut because the staff and wards are overwhelmed and they can't guarantee an icu bed if its needed. The transplant isn't lifesaving but life enhancing and its meant probably an extra 6 months on dialysis. the NHS is going to take a long time to recover. It would be nice if they took the opportunity to put in some more capacity to clear the backlog and provide resilience if something similar happens again.