There are great discrepancies within the NHS at present.
I am currently running short staffed, no receptionists at all, all redeployed elsewhere (Test and Protect tracing or manning the door screening stations)
Whereas I know of sites elsewhere where they have a number of admin staff, so many that they are rostered on, so that they are only working a couple of days a week and even when at work, with no walk ins and all the various Covid precautions, they are getting through a vast amount of paperbacks!
Mentioning it to management just gets a " We'll look into it".
Anyway Christmas decorations have been banned from clinical areas for years and would doubt any are going up this year so proably for their ebay account!
One of my neighbours is a doctor on the Covid ward of the nearby city general hospital, and is astonished at the healthcare professionals working there who are all over Facetube with tales of woe and a lack of PPE, putting them all in mortal danger.
According to him, it's all outright lies and attention seeking.
There has never been a shortage of resources of any kind.
The staff have been kicking their heels waiting for the Armageddon, and can't be redeployed to where there is more requirement.
They're still in Tier 3, though.
Doesn't stop them whining that they're working their fingers to the bone.
There's no doubt that some are working wonders and deserve every penny, tax paid or not, but there are others who are riding on their coat tails.