Covid in Scotland: Hospitals under more pressure than ever, say medics

Scotland's hospitals are under more pressure than ever, doctors have told BBC Scotland.

As the Scottish government prepares to publish a Covid recovery plan for the NHS, medics at Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital spoke to BBC Scotland's health correspondent Lisa Summers.It's 10am on Tuesday at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital. The emergency department is full. Five seriously ill patients are in resus, all 16 assessment cubicles are occupied. Some have been waiting more than 12 hours for a bed to become available elsewhere in the hospital.

"Lying on a trolley for a number of hours anywhere is unpleasant, it also turns the tension up, everyone is waiting and everyone is not as satisfied as they otherwise would be," he says. "The waiting times for clinics and for investigations like colonoscopy and endoscopy and for day surgery in particular are huge at the moment, so I have no idea when we are going to be out of this other than it is not going to be any time quickly," she says.

Senior charge nurse Lauren Johnson says staff had to adapt quickly to wearing PPE and communicating with sometimes confused or hard-of-hearing patients who were scared and couldn't see their families. "They've not been connected with as many of their family and friends, they've not had ways to meet, so patients are not as strong as they used to be.

The trend is changing, most new cases are from those who already got vaccinerated. There is a need to look at figures differently. The focus is not the number of cases but whoever the country government can effectively reduce the number of death cases, will win the people's heart

'But more people are also being admitted with other complex, more advanced disease, having put off seeking treatment.' Yes that's what happens when non-covid services are generally unavailable for a year and a half. Why is anyone surprised?

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