Re: CV and mad panic behaviour
Reply #6286 –
Irrespective of where you sit on covid, our hospitals run as lean as possible at the best of times. They know how many are coming, what demographics, why they are likely to come and have planned to within a degree of additional capacity if and when required.
Covid has the ability to cause bedlam to that. Think of what happened supply chain wise last year. Everything is geared to a just in time and just enough for manufacturing. Likewise health care to make it as resource efficient as possible.
Anyone ever seen a hospital waiting room empty? 13 years ive been in 2 different health services and the one take away i have for everyone is whilst the model is scalable its not easy to do so for a variety of factors.
Add a pandemic with even a moderate kick up in care and presentations and you result in a lot of issues.