There is no quick fix to pressures being faced in hospitals in Northern Ireland, Health Minister Robin Swann warned today.
“Get your Covid-19 and flu vaccination jabs if you are eligible and co-operate with hospital discharge processes to help free up beds for others.” He cautioned, though, that the Department of Health is “planning and preparing for a range of eventualities” as the winter takes hold. A spike in the virus is inevitable, he added, but levels of public concern are “at an all time low”.
Before that, ministers had agreed in principle that any new spending plan would need to allocate increased funding to the region’s crisis-hit health service. “In a written statement to the Assembly in July, I said: ‘Not long ago, patients and staff in Northern Ireland had the promise of a multi-year budget, with the potential for longer-term planning and sustained investment.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
No, myself and my pure blood are doing perfectly well against this heavy cold outbreak... pureblood
Not interested!
Do they think we’re going to take that shite after all the facts we’ve learned?
I want to live, so NO
FUCK AF
Our politicians are “long standing “ too. Standing idle.
I'd be interested in knowing RobinSwannMoH thoughts on a doctors surgery closing for 2 days a week in Oct and Nov to facilitate flu/covid jabs. If someone is ill they will end up going to hospital as they can't get an appointment to see their doctor
He has been long standing, so that's a least one longstanding problem!
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