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Sorry, mate you are talking rubbish. No one who needs a hospital has been refused. That came up the other day from one of the stupid journalists and he was put in his place by that female NHS representative. Actually his comments annoyed her.

When thousands are dying outside of hospitals I beg to differ.
 
I not going to listen to your incorrect rubbish mate. The NHS has not denied people hospital treatment. You are being disrespectful.

I know of people who have been in a bad way and treated over the phone, if you can call it that. In normal circumstances they’d have been right to go to hospital. It’s not disrespectful but just your usual tactic.
 
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Testing capacity now 40,000 a day!

Let’s have a little sweepstake for the closest guess to how many tests are actually being done.
 
Interesting turn of events. Hancock has just said regarding the EU scheme that we were asked if we wanted to be an associate member, he said 'Yes'. He went on "The scheme has not made anything available to us regarding PPE". If this is correct a few will be red-faced.

I really can’t be arsed to fact check this for another source to back it up but this suggests £1.3bn rather than Hancock’s £0.
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/to...lbc-radio-eu-ppe-procurement-scheme-1-6606962
 
I not going to listen to your incorrect rubbish mate. The NHS has not denied people hospital treatment. You are being disrespectful.
Perhaps not ‘denied’ but I’m told that it’s much tougher to get in now than it was a few weeks ago, and there are definitely protocols in place for access to ITU/ventilation. I would not be surprised at all to hear that a care home manager has asked for Edna, 89 and very frail with dementia and now with breathing difficulties, to be hospitalised and for the request to be declined (by a doctor).

It might be the decision I would make too, if I were in the unfortunate position of having to make such horrendous choices.
 
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Interesting turn of events. Hancock has just said regarding the EU scheme that we were asked if we wanted to be an associate member, he said 'Yes'. He went on "The scheme has not made anything available to us regarding PPE". If this is correct a few will be red-faced.

We were asked, but said 'No thanks, we've got Dyson on the case'. They didn't make anything available because we didn't ask them to. Weasel words.
 
Perhaps not ‘denied’ but I’m told that it’s much tougher to get in now than it was a few weeks ago, and there are definitely protocols in place for access to ITU/ventilation. I would not be surprised at all to hear that a care home manager has asked for Edna, 89 and very frail with dementia and now with breathing difficulties, to be hospitalised and for the request to be declined (by a doctor).

It might be the decision I would make too, if I were in the unfortunate position of having to make such horrendous choices.
Not denied Sb. I sat listening to that NHS spokeswomen the other day who seemed disgusted by that same question. She said no one will be refused hospital if they need it. She really did press home her point as well.
 
Interesting turn of events. Hancock has just said regarding the EU scheme that we were asked if we wanted to be an associate member, he said 'Yes'. He went on "The scheme has not made anything available to us regarding PPE". If this is correct a few will be red-faced.
And if it's a lie then a few will find an excuse for the incompetence