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BBC News-20220103-19:08:00

and covid is adding to that. this year, though, there's another complication — the number of staff who are off because of the virus. now it's understood several hospital chief executives in england are saying their trusts are under the greatest sustained pressure they've seen. there are now more than 111,000 patients with covid in hospitals in england. that's up almost 70% in a week. i've spoken to staff who do find treating unvaccinated patientsl who are seriously unwell, i they do see that upsetting, particularly if, as from time to time, the patient says, i "i wish i had been - vaccinated all along." so, we're not here tojudge, - we're here to treat and we'll treat whoever comes and requires our care and our attention _ there are some early encouraging signs, though. i was talking to london chief execs last week. what they were saying is they were seeing some very concerning daily increases of the numbers of people coming into hospital — 9%, 15%, 9% on the 27th,

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BBC News-20220103-20:13:00

because of the virus. now it's understood several hospital chief executives in england are saying their trusts are under the greatest sustained pressure they've seen. there are now more than 111,000 patients with covid in hospitals in england. that's up almost 70% in a week. i've spoken to staff who do find treating unvaccinated patientsl who are seriously unwell, l they do find that upsetting, particularly if, as from time to time, the patient says, i "actually i wish i'd been vaccinated all along." i so, we're not here tojudge, - we're here to treat and we'll treat whoever comes and requires our care and our attention _ there are some early encouraging signs, though. i was talking to london chief execs last week. what they were saying is they were seeing some very concerning daily increases of the numbers of people coming into hospital — 9%, 15%, 9% on the 27th, 28 and 29th of december. but interestingly, in the last two days, those numbers have dropped,

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BBC News-20220103-21:12:00

all the critical services they need to. looking at the pressures on the nhs in the next couple of weeks and maybe longer, looking at the numbers of people who're going to be going into hospital, it will be absolute folly to say that this thing is all over now bar the shouting. we've got to remain cautious, we've got to stick with plan b, we've got to get boosted. in other words, no new restrictions in england at the moment. expect to hear more focus on boosterjabs, though. and nhs staff could be redeployed to help the busiest areas. it's not unusual to hear that the nhs is under pressure in january. winter always brings with it extra patients, and covid is adding to that. this year, though, there's another complication — the number of staff who are off because of the virus. now it's understood several hospital chief executives in england are saying their trusts are under the greatest sustained pressure they've seen. there are now more than 111,000

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BBC News-20220103-10:13:00

said, when you talk to hospital chief executives and acute mental health, ambulance, community chief executives, you feel the kind of pressure rising. there are some good news. the two or three bits of good news. the two or three bits of good news is first would be the fact we are still not seeing large numbers of seriously ill older people. and the other bet is if you look at the london data and i think the london data is important because london went into this omicron peak first and is therefore likely to come out of it first, the number of hospitalisations over the last couple of days has dropped significantly. what was really interesting is when i was talking to london chief executives last week, what they said as they saw some very concerning daily increases of the numbers of people coming to hospital, 9%, 15%, on the 27th, 28th of december but in the last couple of december but in the last couple of days, the numbers have dropped, the increase is i% and 2% so if

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Breakfast

chief executive chris hopson joins us now from north london. can you give us a sense of what you see as the scale of the problems that might be around the corner? just to say, charlie, good morning, and it's a fantastic morning given what happened last night. what we are basically saying is the good news is that because of the vaccine we are expecting significantly lower numbers of people coming into hospital as the community infection rate rises and we know that the secretary of state for health was saying earlier this week we could get as high as 100,000 cases a day but we will have a lot lower numbers of people in hospital and what we are worried about is that people think all will be well and what they are doing is missing the picture as are doing is missing the picture as a whole. if you talk to hospital chief executives they will tell you that they are going full pelt to

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BBC News

the success of the vaccine programme is saving lives and has severely weakened the link between cases and hospitalisations. chris hopson is the chief executive of nhs providers which represents hospital trusts in england. if you talk to hospital chief executives, what they tell you as they are going absolutely full pelt to recover the care backlog. we have a very busy accident and emergency care, very striking how many people say they saw record numbers of people in their emergency departments injune. as you know, we had then got about 10,000 beds fewer than we normally have so we've lost about 10% of capacity because of infection control and what we have on top is this problem of the fact because community infection rates of covid are rising we have large numbers of staff self isolating and of course those numbers will increase if as after the restrictions get relaxed onjuly the 19th, what we will see is those numbers are people who have to

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - BBCNEWS - 20210621:08:12:00

at a level that is much, much lower than we have seen in previous phases. and it takes us straight back to the vaccinations, which is, effectively, what is interesting, when you talk to hospital chief executives, they say there are very few people who they are seeing who have had the double jab and have had the 2-3 have had the double jab and have had the 2—3 week protection build—up afterwards, and that is why we say with increasing confidence that, for the set of variants, and that is an important qualification, they set of variants, the vaccine does appear to have broken the chain between community infection rates at the very high levels of hospitalisation and mortality we have seen in previous waves. so that is good news, but i want to stress the point, victoria, which is that we have this virus raging in other parts of the world, raging in brazil, previously in india, and what has been proved time after time is that the ability of those variants to travel across borders

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