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Transcripts for BBCNEWS Breakfast 20210810 05:34:00

On the treatment of some of those less urgent conditions. and, of course, there are a lot of patients who ve been waiting for a long time for their treatment that may now be further delayed. the past fortnight s seen a whole ward shift to accommodate increasing patient numbers. two weeks ago, this was not a covid ward, was it? no. we were gastroenterology, and now we re covid. shanice worked on 5y the last time it was a covid ward in the winter. we re kind of used to it now. we re still worried because it s covid and we don t want to be taking it home to our families, we don t want to be catching it, but we know what to expect. we know how to treat our patients. and with record numbers coming into a&e, the hospital s exceptionally full. critical care s where the sickest patients are treated. normally, the pressure on beds here means patients who improve are moved to general wards. but at the moment that s proving difficult. ....

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