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Shattered staff in one of England’s largest hospitals say they are working “to the limit” of their ability, battling low morale, exhausting shift patterns, and the prospect that the worst is still to come. As the number of cases continues to rise across the country, St George’s Hospital in Tooting, south-west London, has had to vastly expand intensive care capacity and move staff without specialist training to high dependency roles in an effort to tackle the workload. The PA news agency was granted rare behind-the-scenes access to the coronavirus front line amid confirmation that a fu...

By Press Association 2021 A staff nurse puts on PPE in the corridor of the Acute Dependency Unit at St George’s Hospital in Tooting, south-west London Hospital staff on the coronavirus frontline have described how there is “very little joy” in the job during the second wave, with some in intensive care units resigning and managers concerned over the long-term mental health impact on employees. Tori Cooper, head of nursing in the Emergency Department at St George’s Hospital in Tooting, south-west London, said the usually good s...

A n NHS chief has said her hospital is running at double capacity after an anti-lockdown scientist claimed that it was “not unusually busy”. Jac Totterdell,  chief executive of St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Tooting, revealed she has had to expand the number of intensive care beds for the critically sick from 60 to 120, the vast majority of which are for Covid-19 patients. The rest are for those recovering from other serious trauma such as heart attacks or road traffic accidents. Nurses who would usually be assigned to one patient are now having to deal with u...

Inside a UK hospital on the coronavirus frontline: Staff 'at their limit' with the worst yet to come These pictures show the reality of working inside one of the UK's busiest intensive care wards right now with the number of beds already doubled 11:26, 7 JAN 2021 Updated The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now Wales Online - Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. OurPrivacy Noticeexplains more about how we use your data, and your r...