The trial of the former first minister of scotland, alex salmond, on charges of Sexual Assault and attempted rape gets under way in edinburgh later. A final farewell to royal duties. The duke and duchess of sussex prepare to carry out their last Public Engagement as senior members of the royal family. And coming up in sport scotland triumph over france in the six nations, ending the french grand slam dream. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at nine. The Prime Minister will chair a cobra meeting of senior ministers at 11 oclock this morning, to discuss the countrys response to the coronavirus following the uks third death linked to the illness. The meeting is expected to focus on the possible move from the first containment phase of a four part government strategy, to the second stage of delaying its spread. Confirmed cases of the virus in the uk have now reached 278 yesterday saw the largest increase in uk cases in one day. Public Health England confirmed yesterday that a third
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Why hospital capacity is more complex than bed capacity
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Kevin Fong, Charlotte Summers, and Tim Cook unpick arguments that the NHS was not overwhelmed by covid-19, highlighting its legacy effects on healthcare and lessons for future health crises
During the UK’s covid-19 inquiry we have heard that “there was an inbuilt reluctance to accept that it was possible to get to a point where the NHS was overwhelmed” and that NHS capacity was regarded as “elastic.”1 The question of whether the NHS was overwhelmed during the covid-19 pandemic has become an important point of debate. Some commentators continue to suggest that the NHS prepared for a surge in admissions that did not threaten NHS capacity and unnecessarily suspended services.234
These comments either misunderstand or misrepresent the nature of the threat, the NHS response to covid-19, and the concept of capacity in healthcare services. NHS capacity is a complex property of a complex sociotechnical system; it cannot be described through simple numerical counts of bed spaces, oc