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Hospitals struggling as London coronavirus cases soar
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U.K. Hospitals Running Out of Beds as COVID Cases Surge Newsweek 12/18/2020 Zoe Drewett © Steve Parsons/Getty Doctors treat a patient suffering from COVID-19 at an NHS hospital in Surrey, England
Hospitals in England have started to turn patients away as COVID-19 cases surge and beds fill up ahead of a five-day Christmas relaxation period. Health workers warned that hospitals are already struggling to cope, with the peak of a long winter yet to hit.
National Health Service (NHS) leaders have warned that frontline services will come under even more intense strain in the next few weeks as the pressures of treating COVID patients during the height of winter will be compounded by the numbers of NHS staff who are themselves off work because of the virus.
Several major hospitals began cancelling routine surgery last night as they struggled to cope with rising admissions for Covid-19.
NHS trusts in London, Essex and Kent said they were under pressure, with some forced to divert ambulances and cancel non-urgent surgery to free up beds.
Thousands of patients are expected to be affected. Yesterday a record 35,383 new coronavirus cases were reported in the UK, with the number of patients in hospital with the infection at its highest since mid-April.
There have been 160,878 new infections over the past seven days – up 41 per cent on the previous week.
However, yesterday s dramatic leap was partly due to an IT glitch leading to a delay in reporting 11,000 positive tests in Wales. London is currently the worst-hit region, followed by the South East.
One of the biggest hospital trusts in the country has been forced to cancel operations at one of its hospitals and turn ambulances away, just days after declaring a critical incident.
Whipps Cross in East London is at the epicentre of rising pressure across the capital, with local MP Stella Creasy also raising concerns about patient safety and whether vulnerable patients are being discharged with the vaccine.
The hospital is much smaller than Barts’ Royal London site. Across Barts Health Trust as a whole, there has been an increase in covid-positive patients of about 60 per cent in that period, to a total of more than 350.
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