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Recover the care backlogs and we have a very, very busy urgent and emergency care and it's very striking about how many people say they saw record numbers of people in their emergency departments injune their emergency departments in june and their emergency departments injune and then we have about 10,000 beds fewer than we normally have so we've lost about 10% capacity due to infection control and on top of this we have the problem that because community infection rates of covid are rising we have large numbers of staff having to solve isolate on those numbers will increase is, after the res...

13 covid patients there, but the hospital is dealing with a backlog in cases and a busy bank holiday weekend, so people are being told only to call 999 in an emergency. we are only to call 999 in an emergency. - are expecting to receive about 3000 calls across the south—west, a considerable amount of the resources that we have available to us. some arts of that we have available to us. some parts of the — that we have available to us. some parts of the country, _ that we have available to us. some parts of the country, like _ that we have available to us. some parts of the country, like bo...

Moment. these big care backlogs that we are trying to get through as quickly as possible and we are tackling the most complex cases to start and it means those patients need to have overnight stays and, because they are difficult cases. the second is we think there are significant numbers of people who have put off coming into hospital and actually have now reached the stage where they must come in and get treatment, but because they have left it so long, it means that the treatment required will take longer and its more complex. the third bit is yes, in those areas where we are seeing an text...

You concerned that this could exacerbate the covid situation? what exacerbate the covid situation? what we know is that _ exacerbate the covid situation? what we know is that trusts _ exacerbate the covid situation? unfit we know is that trusts who exacerbate the covid situation? wuat we know is that trusts who are in holiday areas tell us that in the summer, they do tend to get a significant spike of demand and what they are saying to us is that they are already very busy for the reasons i've explained in terms of getting through these care backlogs, higher levels of demand with more serious...