Collapse in cancer treatment as coronavirus overwhelms hospitals
At least 10,000 fewer patients in hospitals are being treated for non-covid issues today than the middle of last month
NHS hospitals are treating less than half of the cancer patients they normally would, it has emerged amid increasing fears it is struggling to cope with surging coronavirus cases.
The Sunday Telegraph can also reveal there are at least 10,000 fewer patients in hospitals being treated for non-covid issues today than the middle of last month, as doctors increasingly prioritise people with Covid-19.
New figures show the majority of patients in nine hospitals in general and acute wards are being treated for the virus, while three times as many frontline health care workers are off sick than normal for this time of year.
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Filipino nurses in UK brace for new coronavirus variant as PM announces another lockdown By JOJO DASS
Published January 6, 2021 8:51am DUBAI, United Arab Emirates Health workers across the United Kingdom, among them over 18,500 Filipinos, are bracing for yet again another variant of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday, January 4, 2021, announced a nationwide lockdown while mass inoculation speeds up in an apparent race against time to flatten the curve as numbers reach unprecedented levels since March last year. “I am scared. But I have learned to adapt,” said 33-year-old Rose Ann Viterbo-Soriano, who works at Chelsea and Westminster National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust and assigned at West Middlesex University Hospital in Isleworth, west London.