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Not got the stats to hand as I'm at home today. Moving critical care patients is fairly uncommon. In the two regional major trauma centres I was emergency planner for we'd get 2-3 a month usually. The LAS set up and staffed 24/7 a critical transfer cell just to manage that. Given that this is...

So you've not bothered to look at the ICU data in the Covid-19 surveillance reporting then

Given all elective surgery was stopped and recovery bays and theatres in most trusts were converted to ICUs and the staff/patient ratios were relaxed, 'ordinary' capacity was reached in a number of areas. London Ambulance Service initiated a new command cell just to coordinate the transfer of...

Pre-existing conditions massively affect your ability to survive significant trauma. If you look at the research you'll see a significant link, especially in increasing the risk of a more minor injury becoming fatal The effect of pre-existing medical conditions and age on mortality after injury...

The thing that needs to be taken into account when comparing flu death years versus the current Covid-19 death figures is the Covid-19 figures are with the significant interventions in place and the flu figures are from years when there weren't widespread measures to prevent infections spreading

We also tend not to record the numbers of people who die in RTCs who have pre-existing conditions. Statistically speaking, 112 of the 1770 people killed in 2018 would have had type 2 diabetes. 588 (33%) were over 60. Only 48 (2.7%) were under 18

This is where the training needs to be correct. While a competent user might be able to work out what they need to do to get the correct result, there may be stuff going on in the background that they aren't aware of that comes back to bite them later. This happened in the early days with the...

The Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee (DPTAC) have come down fairly hard against 'shared spaces' DPTAC Position on Shared Spaces

Back in the late 80s there were a fair number of people who commuted to and from the Island via the hydrofoil. Most of them going to the island worked for Marconi and British Hovercraft Corp and those going to the mainland worked for Vospers, the NHS or the university. There was a charter...

The first one is simple and something I've been doing since February and that's to carry my own sanitiser on me. I can remove and replace my face covering by only using the ear loops, thus not touching it and not needing to replace it. The guidance does state that you should avoid taking it off...

Ministers need to be regularly reminded that that can't just do anything they want, elected representatives or not. They still have to act within the law. One of the many roles that civil servants undertake is to have the appropriate expert knowledge of their specialist area to point out to...

What you actually said was: I was asking how would wearing a mask in accordance with the guidelines (most of which are technically regulations) prevent you from working within the law. I presume you have some example of how this might be true. Or is there a missing word that would change the...

Agent Orange isn't glycophosphate. Agent Orange is a mix of 2,4,5-Trichlorophenoxyacetic acid and 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid whereas Glyphosate is N-(phosphonomethyl)glycine

This reckoning, are we talking camps? Purges? 1605863357 How specifically do these two things conflict? Which law would you be breaking by wearing a face mask

You could probably determine restrictions based on Lower Layer Super Output Areas as that's one way the statistics are produced but outside of people interested in statistics and demographics very few people know what they are. Having too much granularity can lead to the published data...

After all, they've only had 25 years to try and comply with the legislation

Which non-fatal derailment have the police in Scotland declared a "crime scene" for three months or is that just ill informed hyperbole?

Just to counter all the negative reports about assistance, I'd like to flag how Woking station seem to have got it right. I've not had a problem in the three weeks I've been commuting from there. The gate line staff ask which train you're hoping to catch and then radio the platform staff on the...

The question still remains as to how they'd get you off the platform and how they'd keep you safe in the interim. As a little experiment, wear what you'd normally wear for commuting on a day like today and then try sitting outside not moving your legs. It surprised me how much faster you get...

Evacuation means to leave the building. As the guidance to the Regulatory Reform Order (RRO) states, the "evacuation plan should not rely upon the intervention of the Fire and Rescue Service to make it work" Just telling people to stay put and await the FRS is specifically NOT an evacuation...