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Originally Posted by 1andrew1

Theresa May's focus on immigration number-counting at the expense of our hard-pressed NHS is clearly demonstrated by this.

She should know that UKIP's a spent force and she can now safely put the NHS before immigration red tape box-ticking.

Add on top of that is that NHS hospitals facing serious shortages of vital equipment as well.

Hospitals are suffering serious shortages of vital medical equipment such as ventilators, pumps to administer drugs, and oxygen cylinders during the NHS’s ongoing winter crisis, the Guardian can reveal.

Doctors’ and nurses’ leaders voiced alarm at the revelations.
“I’ve heard from several colleagues in acute medicine that their trusts have significant shortages of essential equipment such as bilevel positive airway [BiPaP] ventilators, which are needed in this surge of respiratory illness and IT kit – computers – on extra-capacity wards needed to complete patient records and proceed with [giving] care,” said Dr Nick Scriven, the president of the Society for Acute Medicine.
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“I have also heard about a lack of basic items on extra wards such as blood tubes and cannulae, as well as beds, pillows and bedsheets. When staff have to urgently re-open areas [as temporary wards] and there is literally no kit then there is a panic procurement.”

https://www.theguardian.com/society/...ital-equipment