[Margaret Pilkington]

Taddy, it is not true that the NHS is overwhelmed.
I know nurses still working in the NHS...I still talk to them...they still contact me to ask me things....they tell me it is not busier than any other late autumn.
They also tell me that any respiratory ailment that results in a death is recorded as the virus, whether it is or not.
They have been told they must not discuss these things with anyone outside.

As for why my daughter has not been seen....well as I said, this is a common finding among cancer patients...it is as if they are disposable.
How does it make sense to have a surgical team of 12 perform ten and a half hours of surgery to save her life when the follow up care is not there to support what was done.
This was a recurrence of her cancer, having been given the all clear just five months earlier.

She has to have regular blood tests, but cannot get these done by the GP....so she HAS to go to the path lab at RBH....this is someone who is ‘at risk’ and has been shielding.

Each time we have gone there the place is like it is on a quiet Bank Holiday....empty corridors and few people in the clinic(the clinic waiting areas are close to the place where she gets her tests done).

That is why I am amazed when they said they were opening the mothballed Nightingale units.....expecting 4000 deaths per day....that is what Patrick Vallance projected.....now it transpires that these Nightingale units will be used for track and trace(an expensive fiasco if ever there was one).....and maybe for vaccinations(if people turn up....I would never trust a vaccine that had been put together in such a short time....but then that is me....the conspiracy theorist).