it s too soon to know the full impact of the new omicron variant on hospitals. 7,000 army forces personnel are on standby if more reinforcements are needed. katharine da costa, bbc news. the uk health secretary sajid javid has been speaking to reporters well, we can speak now to dave west, who s the deputy editor of the health service journal. he joins us live from south east london. saying that they re concerned about some hospital care might not be safe because of staff shortages. safetif because of staff shortages. safety and health services because of staff shortages. safety and health services cannot - because of staff shortages. safety and health services cannot run - because of staff shortages. safetyl and health services cannot run with in sufficient numbers of staff and staff like registered nurses and other clinical professions and figures that hsg has published this morning since there is now 120,000 absences reported just over the last couple of days across the nhs and
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the situation is not safe. from assisting paramedics to bolstering teams at testing sites and vaccination centres, more than 1,800 service personnel have already been deployed across the uk. around 90 are preparing to assist three health boards in scotland, while in england, 200 army medics and soldiers are being deployed across hospitals in london. this winter, there is an extraordinary pressure on our nhs. it is our duty to be a sticking plasterfor the nhs to help get through a time of extraordinary crisis. these are unprecedented times. while there are early signs that cases may be slowing in london, it s too soon to know the full impact of the new omicron variant on hospitals. 7,000 army forces personnel are on standby if more reinforcements are needed. katharine da costa, bbc news. earlier i spoke to our health correspondent, nick triggle, who talked us
but nurses can t stop helping their patients, so what s happening instead is that they re finding themselves being spread thinner and thinner, but they can t keep doing that indefinitely. the situation is not safe. from assisting paramedics to helping teams at testing sites and vaccination centres, more than 1,800 service personnel have already been deployed across the uk. around 90 are preparing to assist three health boards in scotland, while in england, 200 army medics and soldiers are being deployed across hospitals in london. this winter, there is an extraordinary pressure on our nhs. it is our duty to be a sticking plasterfor the nhs to help get through a time of extraordinary crisis. these are unprecedented times. while there are early signs that cases may be slowing in london, it s too soon to know the full impact of the new omicron variant on hospitals. 7,000 army forces personnel are on standby if more