{"id":587078,"date":"2022-04-08T15:24:15","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T15:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=587078"},"modified":"2022-04-08T15:24:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T15:24:15","slug":"nhs-overwhelmed-due-to-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/nhs-overwhelmed-due-to-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS Overwhelmed due to Covid-19?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hospitals all across the UK are &#8220;under enormous strain&#8221; after the growing number of people contacting Covid-19 in the past few weeks, making a lot of staff members stressed, and with the hospitals being overwhelmed, it&#8217;s believed that some places have had to say no to some A&amp;E ambulance drivers!<\/p>\n<p>Over the past week, 20 NHS A&amp;E patients were made to find another place to get looked after, due to the number of people in the hospitals currently.<\/p>\n<p>As of right now, hospital bosses are saying they are &#8220;very concerned&#8221; about the situation at hand, as Covid-19 continues to rise all across the UK.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_587079\" style=\"width: 2676px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-587079\" class=\"size-full wp-image-587079\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/124074958_optimised-primary_diagnosis_area_05_apr-nc.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2666\" height=\"1875\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/124074958_optimised-primary_diagnosis_area_05_apr-nc.png 2666w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/124074958_optimised-primary_diagnosis_area_05_apr-nc-300x211.png 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/124074958_optimised-primary_diagnosis_area_05_apr-nc-1024x720.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/124074958_optimised-primary_diagnosis_area_05_apr-nc-768x540.png 768w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/124074958_optimised-primary_diagnosis_area_05_apr-nc-1536x1080.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/124074958_optimised-primary_diagnosis_area_05_apr-nc-2048x1440.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2666px) 100vw, 2666px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-587079\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credit: BBC<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Saffron Cordery, NHS Providers, represents hospitals have said this!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We&#8217;re very concerned about the real pressures across the whole health and care system. A very high number of hospital beds are occupied, and combined with staff absences and severe workforce shortages, this means that trusts can&#8217;t recover care backlogs as quickly as they want to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ambulance services are doing everything they can in these extremely difficult circumstances, but the extra pressures are leading to growing delays to handovers to busy emergency departments.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meaning that with the rise in cases, it is hard to continue care for everyone as everywhere is now booked up. Making some A&amp;E Patients needing to find another place to go. As there is no room!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hospitals all across the UK are &#8220;under enormous strain&#8221; after the growing number of people contacting Covid-19 in the past few weeks, making a lot of staff members stressed, and with the hospitals being overwhelmed, it&#8217;s believed that some places have had to say no to some A&amp;E ambulance drivers! 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