The free health care system was known for delays, caused in part by whittled-down funding. But Covid made waits for transplants, cancer treatments and other essential care even longer.
after 7:30am. time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. good morning. here are the top stories in london and the south east this morning pop up street vaccination centres are running at locations including brighton pier and king s cross station today, to encourage more people to get theirjabs. the get boosted now campaign runs every day until christmas eve. street teams made up of nhs volunteers will visit 21 popular areas across the country. it s in response to rising cases of the omicron variant. many people have had nhs operations cancelled since the start of the covid pandemic. lara wahab has type one diabetes and needs a life saving kidney and pancreas transplant. but despite matching organs being found, she says her hospital couldn t do the operation because no intensive care beds were available. the 34 year old blames unvaccinated people for taking up beds when they otherwise may not
teams of nhs volunteers are running pop up street vaccination centres at locations including brighton pier and king s cross station to encourage more people to get their jabs. the get boosted now campaign runs every day until christmas eve and the street teams will visit 21 popular areas across the country. it s in response to rising cases of the omicron variant. many people have had nhs operations cancelled since the start of the covid pandemic. lara wahab has type 1 diabetes and needs a life saving kidney and pancreas transplant. but despite matching organs being found, she says her hospital couldn t do the operation because no intensive care beds were available. the 34 year old blames unvaccinated people for taking up beds when they otherwise may not need the care. there are thousands of people like me out there waiting for life saving treatment, and small actions have very, very big and often grave consequences. that is what we are seeing