Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

most private hospitals have a much smaller ICU-maybe 7/10 beds but they do still have them.

Depends on your policy?

I know when I had a healthcare thing at my old work it covered just about everything so long as you could work out which hospital they would use as the approved place to get treatment, a number of the near ones had been small non-NHS hospitals and clinics. Remember having a lengthy argument about that as after 6 years head office based outside London wanted to remove London hospitals so I'd have needed to go to Guildford or something making the policy I'd never needed to use even more worthless to me.

For most BUPA cover they just bump you up the lists, they can't do that with ICU or A+E or other time critical stuff like that. I'd expect news in a months time of people kicking off that they had been paying BUPA for years and then coronavirus came and it did nothing to help them.

Maybe in a parallel and kinder universe this would be possible:

https://novaramedia.com/2020/03/12/make-private-hospitals-public-now/

up to 15% increase in capacity by nationalising private hospitals? I'm in.

It’s bit unclear on how many would be ICU which will be the crux.
It’d be good interim measure though.

My wife isn't British

Those foreign Tories are the worst. :)

NB I thought your post was very interesting. I've been reading a lot of what the experts have to say, but I still feel very short of an approach to understanding what the best method of tackling this might be, largely because I obviously don't know anything about the virus, so her input helps.

111 told my son this morning it’s almost certain he’s got it, also told him they’re not doing testing at the moment

Is Britain just walking away?

Hope he isn’t too bad. Best of luck

Nice
Or in a more LFGSS way stop being a Cunt.

Sorry, I would support testing.

So would I. Perhaps don’t drive your agenda when someone has just stated their son is ill

Edit; they haven’t stopped testing though as I understand but switching to testing hospital population on mass.

2 pages ago we were supposed to support the government line.

There is also a logistics issue.
Still a Cunt though...

I wonder if they have a limited supply of testing kits. Would seem reasonable.

And sorry hope he, and likely the rest of you make a quick recovery.

Probably time for a break :-)

I hope they washed their hands!

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He had a temperature and cough for three days, feels ok now, thanks for asking

Best wishes for your lad.

My daughter is a reception class teacher in Merton. She got this email yesterday...

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Where do you live? Beeristan?

Just walked to the local co-op, people on the streets, milk on the shelves, nice little reality check

Reporting the same here , but no TP
Waitrose Kingston was TP free too

No pasta anywhere .. but lots of flour and eggs

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Yes

Manchester still seems like nothing is happening other than the lack of toilet roll.