‘We’ve closed all of Cornwall down for three people in hospital’: Healthcare assistant who publicly resigned claiming she had ‘no work to do for three weeks’ at peak of the pandemic says claim the NHS is overrun is ‘all lies’

 

‘We’ve closed all of Cornwall down for three people in hospital’: Healthcare assistant who publicly resigned claiming she had ‘no work to do for three weeks’ at peak of the pandemic says claim the NHS is overrun is ‘all lies’ 

A whistleblower NHS healthcare assistant who publicly resigned after claiming she had ‘no work for three weeks’ at the height of the pandemic has said the claim the NHS is overrun is ‘all lies.’ 

A viral Facebook video shows Shelley Tasker, 43 – a healthcare assistant at Treliske hospital, which is part of the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust – telling members of the public what is ‘really going on’ behind closed doors in NHS hospitals. 

In the clip filmed outside Truro Cathedral with a crowd gathering, Shelley, who is a mother and part-time photographer from Camborne, Cornwall, takes to a microphone and says: ‘As much as I’ve always loved our NHS, it’s no longer our NHS. It’s run by the corrupt government and the people running this company. 

‘We no longer have health care, we can’t see dentists. I can tell you now when I was working at the height of the pandemic I had no work for three weeks because there were no patients. We have a particular Covid ward. None of the wards were overflowing with Covid patients and they’re not now.’