Post-Christmas ‘tsunami’ of Covid hospitalisations expected as ambulance queues double
With some hospitals close to running out of beds, the Government is being called on to revise Christmas rules
18 December 2020 • 8:28pm
The number of ambulance handovers lasting more than one hour jumped from 2,460 to 4,294 earlier in December
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Nurses warned on Friday of a post-Christmas “tsunami” of Covid hospital cases, as it emerged the number of ambulances waiting outside due to crowded A&E departments has nearly doubled.
Dame Donna Kinnair, chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, called on ministers to give “fresh and more detailed” advice about festive gatherings.