The 23 hospital trusts where coronavirus patients occupy more than a third of beds
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Britain could vaccinate 24million people against coronavirus by Easter after the game-changing Oxford University/ AstraZeneca jab was approved this morning and its makers promised to deliver 2million doses a week.
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Two of these trusts are not in “tier four” areas and third spans a “tier four” boundary
Dozens of trusts not in “tier four” areas see admissions grow including in Liverpool, Birmingham and Sheffield
There are 14 hospital trusts on course to have at least a third of their beds filled by covid patients on New Year’s Eve.
HSJ analysed current occupancy and growth at each general acute trust in the seven days to 21 December.
Projecting the same rate of growth forward, the number of trusts with at least a third of their bedbase likely to be taken by covid patients would increase from five at present to 14.
Hospitals across south-eastern England are postponing non-urgent procedures as some face double the number of coronavirus patients they had in the spring.
The NHS in Kent confirmed on Friday evening that it would be putting a stop to some planned treatments across the region “due to the increase in Covid patients being treated”.
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS trust had 221 Covid-19 patients on December 16, more than 120 more than the 98 they had in the first peak on April 8.
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East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust was treating 357 people with coronavirus on Wednesday, almost twice the maximum number they had at any point in spring, when figures topped out at 187 on April 20.