of severe staff shortages. pressure on the nhs is now spreading outside london. i think as we know, london has been the epicentre but it s been very striking talking to hospital chief executives over the last 2a hours about actually how that pressure is really, really mounting outside london. and there are three things going on at once. one is we are seeing rising numbers of covid patients coming into hospital, the second is the staff absences which in some trusts are causing a real, real problem and the third bit of course is this is against the backdrop of a very, very busy nhs and social care system where we have got a very busy urgent and emergency care pathway, all those cases, planned surgery cases we cannot delay any longer, that we re trying to at the same time extend the booster campaign and catch those people who haven t been boosted yet who ought to have been boosted, and we know at the same time our social care colleagues are under real, real pressure over the last couple
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rating out of control. we currently do not have the capacity to respond to 911 calls that come from our community right now. and dr. jeffrey elder is the medical director for emergency management at the university of medical center in lcmc health. dr. elder, tell us what you and your colleagues are seeing right now compared to what things were like just a few weeks ago. yes, so we re seeing more and more patients in our hospital, more and more patients coming through with covid-like illness and being admit today the hospital. just on the first of july we saw just about a dozen patients with covid in our hospitals. now we re at over 135 for our six hospital system. so how are your hospitals responding? is that forcing you to cut back in other areas so that you can make room for more covid patients? yes, so we had actually starting on thursday we began to postpone non-urgent surgery