Bristol (U.K.City)

[BRUFC]

For info....the largest city in England's South West, population 535,907 at 2011 Census.

 

I've just read an article in Bristol Live dated yesterday (28th). Most of the article is about Hospital staff being on zero hours contracts and shifts being cut. However, within the article is this...

 

She claims “easily” more than 200 employees are in the same situation, including some nurses.

It comes after Bristol City Council’s new director of adult social care Hugh Evans said the city's hospital bed occupancy was at an “all-time, unforeseeable low”.

You can see that Hugh Evans is talking about the city's hospital bed occupancy, not just the hospital where this woman works.

 

I've also seen a video taken at Bristol's Nightingale Hospital showing it to be virtually deserted (The NHS Nightingale Hospitals are seven critical care temporary hospitals set up or scheduled to be set up by NHS England as part of the response to the COVID-19 epidemic in England.)

 

I'm now asking myself just what is going on in the UK. Anyone have definite information?

[scubascuba3]

Yes definitive information as follows: people aren't going to hospital, today they are predicting more will die from cancer than corona, then theres all the other things, strokes, heart attacks, more people dying at home

[norfolkandchance]

My son is in a Army medical regiment. Most of the regiment has been sent home.

[Kadilo]

The fact they are empty is a good thing. If they hadn’t built them and then the NHS was overwhelmed there would of been anarchy. 
 

Maybe they can use them to take care of sick people in care homes whose numbers are about to explode.