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THE Mayor of Darlington has issued an appeal for residents to help ease mounting pressure on NHS hospitals by avoiding attending accident and emergency departments for inappropriate reasons. Councillor Chris McEwan was speaking after County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust revealed its tremendously stretched hospitals dealing with the pandemic were being put under extra strain by people turning up with very minor issues such as shaving cuts. A meeting of Darlington Borough Council’s health scrutiny committee heard as a result of rising demands, staff at Darlington Memorial Hospital and the University Hospital of North Durham had been moved from ‘back of house services’ to support frontline workers such as emergency departments, but “everywhere is exceptionally busy”.
THE Mayor of Darlington has issued an appeal for residents to help ease mounting pressure on NHS hospitals by avoiding attending accident and emergency departments for inappropriate reasons. Councillor Chris McEwan was speaking after County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust revealed its tremendously stretched hospitals dealing with the pandemic were being put under extra strain by people turning up with very minor issues such as shaving cuts. A meeting of Darlington Borough Council’s health scrutiny committee heard as a result of rising demands, staff at Darlington Memorial Hospital and the University Hospital of North Durham had been moved from ‘back of house services’ to support frontline workers such as emergency departments, but “everywhere is exceptionally busy”.