Covid continues to disrupt: what is the plan to deal with it?

NHS staff are starting to feel like it’s Groundhog Day: healthcare is yet again being derailed by the march of covid-19. While fortunately this time round people are generally not becoming as ill as in previous waves, the current subvariants are proving adept at evading immune defences and spreading rapidly.Right now, 1 in 19 people in England have covid—and that’s the lowest rate across the UK. In Scotland it’s 1 in 16 people, in Wales 1 in 17 people, and in Northern Ireland 1 in 17 people. So it should come as no surprise that repercussions are being felt across the health system.NHS leaders who have been, and continue to be, focused on elective recovery targets, are once again having had to divert their attention to rising hospital admissions and the associated disruption caused by covid-19. From the need to find extra beds, to patients having to postpone their procedures,…
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