Premium Belfast trust warns patients they will have to leave hospital when 'no longer in need of acute care' to free up beds Beds in Belfast hospitals are scarce as Covid admissions rise. Picture by Hugh Rusell. Paul Ainsworth 28 July, 2021 01:00 HEALTH chiefs in Belfast are appealing to patients and families to help free up hospital beds amid the "severe pressures" of Covid-19 admissions. In a notice to all staff, Belfast trust said the increase in admissions was placing staff under huge pressure, and said it was "critical that we discharge patients as soon as it is safe to do so".