This is not a question of if we don’t do it something might happen. “We need that same sense of pulling together over the next few months, trying to avoid risky behaviour if it’s not necessary. Ministers should encourage the public to do their bit by using the NHS responsibly, looking out for neighbours, volunteering or even re-entering the healthcare workforce, Taylor added. We should do what’s in plan B in terms of masks … working from home, but also we should try to achieve the kind of national mobilisation that we achieved in the first and second waves, where the public went out of their way to support and help the health service.” “The government ought to not just announce that we’re moving to plan B, but it should be plan B plus. It would require an incredible amount of luck for us not to find ourselves in the midst of a profound crisis over the next three months.
Taylor said: “We are right on the edge – and it is the middle of October. Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the NHS Confederation. But Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the NHS Confederation which represents the healthcare system in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, said immediate action was required to prevent the NHS “stumbling into a crisis” where the elective care recovery would be jeopardised. The UK now has one of the highest weekly rates of new reported cases in the world.ĭowning Street said it was keeping a “very close eye” on the situation. On Tuesday the UK reported 223 Covid deaths recorded within 28 days of a positive test - the highest for seven months – while the seven-day average for Covid-19 cases stands at 44,145 a day. Infections have been rising sharply since the start of October but the government is resisting introducing the extra restrictions set out in its winter plan such as masks, vaccine passports and advice to work from home. Ministers must urgently implement sweeping “plan B” winter measures or derail efforts to tackle the backlog of 5 million patients, the head of the NHS Confederation warned as the UK recorded its highest daily Covid death toll since March.
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