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The National Health Service is close to the edge of being overwhelmed in many parts of Britain and pressure is only going to increase as winter approaches, the head of a healthcare system body said on Wednesday.
Of the vaccine booster programme. rising infections, deaths, hospitalisations, how they reached levels at which plan b was supposed to be implemented? it is open to interpretation because the government said plan b for england would be introduced if there was "unsustainable pressure" on the nhs, so that was never spelt out in great detail, but now we have this body, representing many health groups in different parts of the uk, the nhs confederation, saying that in their view we have reached this point, of unsustainable pressure, and what they mean by that is, right now, covid numbers in hospit...
With me now is our health correspondent, jim reed. two new antiviral drugs are being trialled and the hope is they can be rolled out quickly, how would this altered the equation on dealing with winter pressures, the nhs and covid? there is a lot of excitement about one of these drugs made by a company called msd, trials showed that it roughly halved the risk of death or hospitalisation, you take the pill twice a dayjust after you had started to show symptoms of covid. lots of excitement and interest in this drug, developed by an american company. when the trial results were announced it would ...
Struck a more downbeat note, with a warning about the outlook for covid cases. they could go yet as high as 100,000 a day. we are also seeing greater pressure on the nhs. across the uk, we are now approaching 1,000 hospitalisations per day. health leaders say, with those covid numbers adding to the existing strain on hospitals, intervention is needed now, in the shape of the government's plan b, setting out tougher measures which could be implemented. when you have the combination of winter pressures, covid pressures and the backlog, put all of that together, you've got a perfect storm, and th...
Hospitalisations per day. health leaders say, with those covid numbers adding to the existing strain on hospitals, intervention is needed now, in the shape of the government's plan b, setting out tougher measures which could be implemented. when you have the combination of winter pressures, covid pressures and the backlog, put all of that together, you've got a perfect storm, and that's why we need to do everything we can to reduce the pressure, and that's why we need plan b now. the government says it will introduce plan b if there is unsustainable pressure on the nhs in england, with steps l...