Covid: Lincolnshire hospitals declare 'critical incident' over staff shortages
A critical incident has been declared at four Lincolnshire hospitals because of staff shortages due to Covid-19.
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust said it was taking "additional steps to maintain services" at all its hospitals in Lincoln, Boston and Grantham.
The trust's medical director, Dr Colin Farquharson, said there were "significant staffing pressures due to absence related to Covid-19".
But he said essential services "remain fully open".
Strewth - yet another 'critical incident'. At some point a penchant for the dramatic is bound to attract diminishing returns in terms of sympathy.
Things may or may not be critical in Lincolnshire, but hand-waving doesn't fit well with a professional approach to the problem. And it's extremely boring. Critically boring I'd say.
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The last real "critical incident" at a hospital was when that Iraqi blew himself up in a Liverpool taxi. What Lincolnshire have got is a management problem.
Too much booze over New Year?
Funny how shops don't have critical incidents.
It seems to be just public services.
NHS management baffled as to why healthy people going into hospitals get all sorts of infections.
Not so good for those actually using the service either.
The NHS is one endless critical incident. As Sam Vega noted, its lack of management is the reason, along with spineless politicians who dare not question its sanctity.
Sam - good point, it should be pointed out to all hospitals making the claim.
dearieme - probably - plus too many mince pies from what I see.
Doonhamer - yes I've noticed the public sector link. We've become too familiar with it.
Jannie - I don't like being fair to the politicians, but the NHS is a very powerful outfit politically. It exerts a powerful emotional appeal on millions of people and on the media and it knows how to use it.
Sam, hospitals suffer from TOO MUCH management, most of it ineffective. The NHS is a giant bureaucracy, unconcerned with its supposed health mission, just ensuring all funds are retained by unnecessary and pointless layers of management to the detriment of front-line healthcare.
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