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Behind-the-scenes footage of UK hospital amid Covid crisis. (PA) An exclusive behind-the-scenes video shows the situation faced by NHS hospitals amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The footage shows the grim reality of the nation’s health crisis as the Press Association (PA) were granted exclusive access to St George’s Hospital in Tooting, London. Reporters and video journalists were granted access on Wednesday to highlight the impact the pandemic is having on UK hospitals, the same day the UK recorded 1,041 coronavirus deaths – the first time the figure has reached over 1,00...

Staff at one of the country’s busiest hospitals have described the “unpredictability” of the second wave of coronavirus, which has seen previously healthy young patients die with Covid-19. Coronavirus deaths since the summer have been characterised partly by increased numbers of young adults being admitted to hospital. And staff at St George’s Hospital in Tooting, south London, said they are treating patients in their 20s and 30s, many seriously ill. Salvatore Patinella, 30, senior staff nurse in the hospital’s acute dependency unit, told the PA news agency: “The situation is real...

Family doctors are experiencing problems getting supplies of coronavirus vaccines for their patients, the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has warned. The “teething problems” risked causing disappointment for vulnerable people who are at the front of the queue to receive the jabs, RCGP chair Professor Martin Marshall said. The comments came as Health Secretary Matt Hancock launched the mass rollout of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine to GP surgeries – but heard first-hand about the issues they face. The surgery Mr Hancock visited to launch the programme had not recei...

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...

by Bethany Rielly THE mass roll-out of the Oxford vaccine began with failures yesterday while hospitals teeter on the edge and NHS staff morale plummets.   The first community vaccines in England with the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab were due to take place yesterday at GP surgeries, with jabs being delivered to sites across the country.  However, supplies of the vaccine failed to arrive at a surgery visited by Health Secretary Matt Hancock to promote the jab’s launch, in a scene described by his Labour counterpart Jonathan Ashworth as “something from The Thick of It.”  It comes as NHS ...