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Even in the winter peak because we were highly vaccinated area of the country, we only saw about 60 patients in the winter between 2020 and 2021, so were seeing a variant that can evade immunity, that is extremely transmissible, that is exploding in terms of the cases in the community. there are lines outside of our testing clinic right now, and very concerningly, were seeing a lot of our own employees out of work due to covid, which presents its own extremely important health care risk to the 2...

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Answered in november. we also know at the same time that we are trying to get through that backlog as quickly as possible and we know that our colleagues in primary care are incredibly busy — gps rolling out those vital boosters as quickly as possible. we also know that our colleagues in social care are also busy. we know that for example 1.5 million hours of domiciliary care could not be delivered between august and october because there simply werent the social care staff there to deliver th...

Delivered between august and october because social care... wherever you look in our system, you have a system that is under pressure to a greater degree than we ever saw this period of time this time of year. thats really for two things. one is the traditional nhs winter peak that tends to happen in early january. secondly, in terms of what might happen in terms of this extra omicron, so yes, the nhs is be on full stretch and thats before he hit the consequences. everybody on the front line wil...

See how much people do take that advice. take us onto the guardian. this is really interesting. weve had plan b, this leak of presentation of the uk health and security agency. will replace public health england suggests that there is pressure for plan c.— is pressure for plan c. yeah, i think there — is pressure for plan c. yeah, i think there is _ is pressure for plan c. yeah, i think there is a _ is pressure for plan c. yeah, i think there is a big _ is pressure for plan c. yeah, i think ...

Todays figures for england show further record waits for treatment in a&e and four beds. nhs staff running absolutely as fast as they can but being outpaced by the extra demand and the pressure that we are seeing. dont forget, this is before we are hitting our traditional winter peak in terms of early to mid january. nhs england says it has seen the busiest november ever and that discharges continue to be a problem, with one in ten beds occupied by someone who is fit to leave hospital. so with p...

Who are having to wait more than 12 hours in terms of accident and emergency department access and we have also got problems in terms of ambulance handover delays. it is a difficult picture will stop nhs staff running absolutely as fast as they can but being outpaced by the extra demand and pressure we are seeing. dont forget this is before we are hitting our traditional winter peak in terms of early to mid january and it is also before what i think is increasingly likely to be a higher number o...

New boost— incredibly busy and setting up this new boost extension campaign, so that is_ new boost extension campaign, so that is about 5,000 people in english — that is about 5,000 people in english hospitals with covid, so we are beyond — english hospitals with covid, so we are beyond full stretch already and we havent— are beyond full stretch already and we havent reached january which is our traditional winter peak, so the prospect— our traditional winter peak, so the prospect of�...

Without any restrictions, the peak of the 0micron wave could lead to more than 2,000 hospital admissions a day, getting close to the peak from the first wave. our staff feel that its been relentless. there has got to be a let up at some point. we have put in measures to help, and everybody is working really hard, but they feel that every time we go one step forward, we seem to go two steps backwards. todays figures for england show further record waits for treatment in a&e and four beds. nhs sta...

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