Ambulance handover delays hit new high with 3 million Covid cases and flu patients in hospital rising by 50% 🚑 The delays reflect the ongoing struggle by hospitals across the country to find space for new arrivals 🔴 PMGallagher1
More than a quarter of patients waited over an hour to be handed to A&E teams and around four in 10 waited at least 30 minutes. This compares with 10 per cent waiting more than an hour at this point last year.
Covid-19 infections in the UK have jumped to their highest level since the summer, with nearly three million people likely to have had the virus over Christmas, the Office for National Statistics said. An estimated 2.
During a hospital visit on Friday, Health Secretary Steve Barclay was questioned on how safe the NHS is for patients at the present time. Without commenting directly on safety levels, he cited the impact of the pandemic, as well as surging flu cases, for the current strain on the service. He added that the Government was putting extra funding in to tackle the issue, particularly focused on “getting people out of hospital who are fit to leave, but often are delayed on the wards”., which uses tech, and support from community teams, to enable patients to be cared for and monitored remotely, so they can remain at home.
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