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Private doctors have been slammed for performing non-urgent operations while the NHS is under 'unthinkable pressure' caused by soaring Covid cases. Medics performing elective operations privately should be 'shamed' out of it amid concerns they are 'once again taking the p*** and walking off with the money', London's top NHS medics believe. All of London's acute hospital trusts have been told to 'think very carefully' about whether it is 'appropriate' to perform elective surgeries, when the same operations have been pushed back by the NHS. A letter - signed by top medics and several of Londo...
Tracy Nicholls, head of the College of Paramedics, says paramedics are under an 'unprecedented pressure' She said some ambulance crews have reported waiting up to ten hours to transfer a patient to hospital staff Professor Chris Whitty said hospitals could be overwhelmed in weeks in a scathing article in the Sunday Times Some 46,000 hospital workers are currently off sick with coronavirus as NHS comes under more pressure
Britons not taking the coronavirus lockdown seriously could soon cause 'avoidable deaths', they are warned Professor Chris Whitty warned hospitals could be overwhelmed in two weeks in a scathing article Some 46,000 hospital workers are currently off sick with coronavirus as the NHS comes under pressure Prof Whitty blasted coronavirus rulebreakers for being the 'link in a chain' that will allow the virus to spread
By Press Association 2021 A nurse works on a computer in the Intensive Care Unit at St George’s Hospital in Tooting, London Much has been made of the role of NHS workers risking their lives in the battle against coronavirus during the pandemic. But how much do we actually know about the day-to-day struggles faced by hospital staff battling exhaustion, low morale and increasing patient numbers as the mutated strain of Covid-19 threatens to overwhelm the NHS this winter? The PA news agency has been allowed a glimpse behind the curtain at...