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Why NHS hospitals really are on the brink


Haemorrhaging of the nation’s
health service has now started
A drowning person closes off blood oxygen supplies to their extremities in a bid to survive. So it is with health systems struggling to cope
9 January 2021 • 6:06pm
A nurse wearing PPE works on a patient in the ICU (Intensive Care Unit) in St George s Hospital in Tooting, south-west London
Credit: PA
The NHS will not all of a sudden topple over, says a seasoned observer. It’s not what happens to overstretched health systems, not least a national service which can, for a time at least, transfer weight from one limb to another. Much more likely is that it will gradually “bleed out” over a period of a month or more if large parts become overwhelmed. ....

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Covid UK: Critically-ill patients from overwhelmed wards in London will be sent to West Country


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Health officials today warned that people as young as 30 will die from Covid as NHS hospitals in the West Country brace for an overspill of critically-ill patients from London under emergency plans.
Trusts in London and the south-east at the centre of the UK s epidemic are preparing to transfer patients to hospitals in the south-west while patients in the east of England will be moved to the Midlands.
The massive Nightingale hospital at the London Excel Centre, which was created in record-time early in the pandemic only to be swiftly mothballed, is also expected to reopen within a fortnight, the Times reports. ....

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