for patients following major surgery as well as those with serious illnesses. how many covid patients are there in here at the moment? so, the numbers have been dropping over the last few weeks, happily. so we re down to five i think today, which is the lowest we ve been for months. dr billyard s seen a big difference here in covid numbers since the start of the pandemic. so most of your patients are in critical care for other reasons? yes, absolutely. and what sort of numbers are we talking? so we have about 30 non covid patients in critical care at the moment. the vaccine and new treatments have helped reduce the number of covid patients needing these beds. but there are some and they appear to be getting younger. what sort of people are ending up in, err, the covid critical care area? the key headline is unvaccinated. the vast majority have have the patients that needed