thousands of "non-urgent" hospital appointments are being cancelled across the UK because of the queen's funeral on Monday. "non-urgent" is misleading because almost anything other than emergency care has wait times of months, possibly years, and some of those being rescheduled will have to wait weeks if not months, years in the worst cases, to finally have their appointments. This will include mental health assessments, elective surgeries, and so on.
This decision will kill people.
the number of people waiting for appointments here is almost beyond comprehension, it stood at 6.8 million a few months ago, over 300,000 of which had been waiting for over a year. this is entirely the result of political decisions by the ruling party, it's a state of affairs which is already lethal for people.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/nhs-cancels-cancer-appointments-queen-elizabeth-funeral-bank-holiday/