The Royal Free London Hospital has no free critical care beds.
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The Royal Free London hospital trust has almost doubled its critical care beds since November, but is still hitting 100 per cent occupancy amidst the second wave of the pandemic.
NHS data showed that on January 17, both the Royal Free and the Whittington Health trusts had filled all of their adult critical care beds.
For the Whittington, it was the second week in a row at 100pc of capacity. Last week, the Royal Free had been at 98 pc.
The Ham&High reported last week that 200 Royal Free staff had been redeployed to support the hospital’s intensive care units. A critical care consultant said: “There are no more intensive care nurses to be found.”