waits in a&e here have been as long as 30 hours. the hospital trust reporting a near 70% increase in patients coming in. in the foothills of the lake district, cumberland infirmary is the largest accident and emergency hospital in cumbria but it s not big enough. it s already at capacity. there are no more beds. health bosses are working day and night to try and discharge patients. currently i don t have beds free in hospital and we have patients waiting and that is a concern for us and for patients. we have ambulance weights and so we are doing work to look at how we can maximise the space. how s it going today? it s busy. no beds and not enough doctors, with the hospital increasingly reliant on locums, and operation already been postponed. 19 in the last week. plan come from a few miles away, a team working on a solution. they are working round the clock to try and stop patients going into hospital in the first place and they are trying to get them out. we try and refer any