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palm 1 said:
Surely in a middle of a pandemic , when no one knows the actual extent of the outbreak , you have to be proactive . Do you think they should have waited until they were overwhelmed before beginning construction?
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No. They should have worked out the model of care that they needed for patients BEFORE they commissioned the nightingales. A really basic and stupid error

They ended up pouring resources into nightingales which had no patients, but starved care homes of resources which had loads of patients. A massive disaster
 


Lankester Merrin said:
No. They should have worked out the model of care that they needed for patients BEFORE they commissioned the nightingales. A really basic and stupid error

They ended up pouring resources into nightingales which had no patients, but starved care homes of resources which had loads of patients. A massive disaster
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I get all that and I’m fully aware that you are speaking from a infinitely more informative base than me , but you now have the benefit of hindsight. If the hospitals were overwhelmed I imagine you would have come on here and slated the Government for not building the Nightingales.
 
palm 1 said:
I get all that and I’m fully aware that you are speaking from a infinitely more informative base than me , but you now have the benefit of hindsight. If the hospitals were overwhelmed I imagine you would have come on here and slated the Government for not building the Nightingales.
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Its not hindsight. I was sceptical about the nightingales right from the start, and I said so on here a number of times which went down very badly

Any decision about allocating healthcare resources is a trade off. Resources are always finite in a given situation, and if you allocate Drs and Nurses where they are not needed you take them away from where they are.
 

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