A DISHEVELLED, BALD FIGURE (THE PRIME MINISTER OF THE UNITED KINGDOM) SWEEPS IMPERIOUSLY FROM THE ROOM, LEAVING OUR HERO AND HEROINE, MATT HANCOCK AND DIDO HARDING, ALONE TOGETHER. SCENE: INTERIOR, 10 DOWNING STREET, THURSDAY 18 JUNE 2020. There will be ongoing reports of supply inadequacies and shortages from clinicians who disagree with the royal colleges’ definitions of what PPE is needed in which care setting.It’ll remain a problem in this way because politicians and system leaders were miles off the pace on this crucial issue. Share this: Twitter; Facebook;

There will also be “new” mental health issues, developing as a direct consequence of lockdown: anxiety, agoraphobia …?There will be mental health care needs among some of the front-line staff, after what they are currently seeing.And this is before we mention the serious question of how we tackle the current, very long waiting lists: the cancer backlog, the referral to treatment backlog and the fatberg that is the non-RTT backlog.The inevitable paradox that the IFS and FT pieces show is that while the NHS will surely have a first-class case for improved capacity of workforce, capital and kit, it will be making this case in a damaged economy. My sense is that for community, mental health (including the police) and social care providers, as well as acutes without Type 1 accident and emergencies, real problems persist in more than a few places.Equally, the combined use of the military and NHS Supply Chain is currently believed to ensure adequate supplies of PPE to acute providers with type 1 A&Es. I leave you with an idea whose originator I haven’t been able to identify: that covid-19 is Schrodinger’s Virus. HSJ is part of Wilmington Healthcare Limited, Beechwood House, 2-3 Commercial Way, Christy Close, Southfields, Essex, SS15 6EF.

Full stop, end of story. (If you don't understand this joke, you're never allowed to talk about science …

We have to act as if we have the virus so that we don't spread it to others. The success of the test and trace programme is the cornerstone of both the NHS’ ability to increase the amount of care it can provide , as well as the continued unlocking of the economy and guarding against a second peak. The old tech industry adage is that “Overall, we need this stuff to work.

Ellen jail joke Ellen DeGeneres coronavirus jail joke - Today, I am filming this in my living room because all the other rooms in my house are filled with toilet paper ! Once the public health emergency situation has ended, data will either be destroyed or returned in line with the law and the strict contractual agreements that are in place between the NHS and partners” is welcome. Therefore, we both have and don't have the virus. (After telling a joke) I wasn't sure if you'd get that, it was a bit of a schrodinger's joke.

[Thank you to Bernie Bell for sending this on to The Orkney News]Enter your email address to follow The Orkney News and receive notifications of new posts by email.We invite submissions on any topic relevant to the people of Orkney. The cop comes to the window and asks, Economically, the issue of the effects of Brexit has not disappeared: it has probably been postponed, as Mark Dayan implies in his As well as the “where to invest?” questions, there will be the “how much change to keep?” ones. My favorite joke I'm sure you've heard it before. Art work by Stewart Bremner. The scenario presents a hypothetical cat that may be simultaneously both alive and dead, a state known as a quantum superposition, as a result of being linked to a random subatomicevent that may or …

Perhaps the penny has dropped that Babylon’s self-styled Data and information are required to develop the intelligence that will help us successfully combat this pandemic. If you have news, views, writing, music, or artwork that you think people need to know about, get in touch using the contact form on this site, or Facebook or Twitter.If you would like to advertise on this site please contact us for rates.

But by then it's too late and you will either look like an idiot or a comedy genius. It will be welcome if there is a regular review of this, involving trusted and independent data experts: this public health emergency may be with us for some time, with recurring flare-ups.Some tech products that have been made available to the NHS are temporarily free. The problem is that defining which is which requires good and dynamic judgment. Clearly, I hope that this is correct, and that the supply to the above-listed sectors will improve fast.What we will see now with PPE supply is that “the story” will lag behind the reality. It illustrates what he saw as the problem of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics applied to everyday objects. DIDO HARDING : Thanks ...What will the next six months bring for the NHS?

Thank you to Stewart Bremner for the use of the graphics. A London acute trust has told its staff they may not be paid for time at home self-isolating if it transpires they were not wearing a mask near someone with coronavirus. Schrodinger’s virus. The simple principle here should be that if the government has to bail an organisation out, then that organisation is effectively a utility, and so should be governed and regulated accordingly.There is a deep irony in a self-styled tech disruptor making System shocks have caused real disruptive innovation. By continuing to browse the site you are agreeing to our use of cookies. This notion is a homage to “Schrodinger’s cat”: a famous paradox designed to explore some of the issues around quantum physics, whereby … HSJ has spoken to the service’s most senior figures and makes the following predictions. Thus Schrodinger’s Virus. Schrödinger's cat is a thought experiment, sometimes described as a paradox, devised by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1935, during the course of discussions with Albert Einstein.