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Speaking to The Mail on Sunday, some of the UK's leading hospital medics remain optimistic - and insist predictions of January 2020 levels of disaster are unlikely to come to fruition.
Flu, the respiratory virus that in a normal winter hospitalises about 400 Britons a week, was expected to push the NHS to breaking point with Covid still around.
Drop in protection against Omicron variant may lead to ‘a large number of people’ needing treatment
GPs have already revealed astonishing rises in type 2 diabetes that occurs when a patient's blood glucose, or sugar, is too high - often because of age, obesity and lack of exercise.
One patient who waived their anonymity to warn others of the dangers is financial analyst Sakib Hussain, 31. He had crowns fitted in Turkey and describes the subsequent pain as 'living torture'.