Health service figures show several casualty units were shut around the country and no spaces free even before onset of full winter conditions
Hospitals occupy race out of beds,had to temporarily close their A&E unit and been battling outbreaks of norovirus this month, even though winter has not yet brought its normal major problems for the NHS, or such as flu and bad weather. Official figures released on Friday by NHS England,for hospital performance in the first week of December, show many are already struggling to cope with the extra pressures, and even before the heaviest strain of norovirus,which generally arrives in January. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com