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The arrival of winter has become synonymous with missed waiting time targets, cancelled operations and efforts to redirect people away from accident and emergency departments.
As resilience plans kick in, staff brace themselves for a surge in patients presenting with breathing difficulties and cases of respiratory disease.
But this winter was widely described as a “crisis” for the NHS with a range of key pressures converging and warnings that the service had reached a “watershed moment”. How bad was it really – we looked at the data and asked nurses what they thought.
National figures showed 95% of general and acute beds in England were occupied on most days during January and February, and around 93-95% in December.
https://www.nursingtimes.net/news/w...lly-the-worst-yet-for-the-nhs/7023517.article
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As resilience plans kick in, staff brace themselves for a surge in patients presenting with breathing difficulties and cases of respiratory disease.
But this winter was widely described as a “crisis” for the NHS with a range of key pressures converging and warnings that the service had reached a “watershed moment”. How bad was it really – we looked at the data and asked nurses what they thought.
National figures showed 95% of general and acute beds in England were occupied on most days during January and February, and around 93-95% in December.
https://www.nursingtimes.net/news/w...lly-the-worst-yet-for-the-nhs/7023517.article
(free registration)