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READ MORE: Royal Free cancels procedures and restricts holiday amid Covid-19 surge The Royal Free has restricted staff holiday and cancelled some non-urgent procedures as staff fight the second surge of Covid-19 infections. As hospitals across the capital come under increased pressure, the rise in cases in Camden was described as "alarming" by one GP. The latest government data shows 35 Covid patients were admitted across the three hospitals of the Royal Free NHS Trust on December 20, by far the highest figure since mid-April.  The figures show there were 244 Covid patients in the tru...

It is understood that non-urgent surgery is now at a minimum, and staff have been told to limit holiday to five days — including bank holidays — between December 21 and mid-February. A consultant at the hospital told this paper: "Although we're not at quite the same Covid peaks we saw back in  April, overall things are very busy and very tight here as we have the usual increased pressures on the ED (emergency department) and beds that we see every winter now, on top of the Covid surge." NHS chief exec Sir Simon Stevens visits the Royal Free at the outset of its Covid vaccination progr...