Recently, the Prime Minister that there needs to be a national conversation about mandatory vaccination.
Whereas I think that there is a case for a long-overdue national conversation about the wise and responsible use of NHS resources and the need for better understanding of whether or not people taken seriously ill want to be treated, or whether they would prefer to be kept comfortable and allowed to die.
The Charity Commpassion in Dying has produced information for people about making treatment decisions if they became ill with Covid:
https://beta.compassionindying.org.uk/making-decisions-about-treatment/
The Resuscitation Council has similar resources:
https://www.resus.org.uk/covid-19-resources/covid-19-resources-decision-making
In my experience, as an attorney appointed under lasting power of attorney for elderly relatives, doctors shy away from talking about death, so it's often left to families to instigate the conversations.
The risk of not having these conversations is that NHS resources may be used to bring very sick people back from the brink of death against their wishes because no medical professional asked what their wishes were, they did not make their wishes known before becoming seriously ill and their families don't know their wishes because they were afraid to talk about death.