Number of patients being treated in ambulances soars and emergency calls go unanswered

The number of patients being forced to wait in ambulances is soaring amid rising hospital admissions, paramedics have warned – as it emerged the NHS is planning to send critically-ill patients from London to the West Country under emergency plans. NHS data shows that the number of patients waiting more than an hour to be handed to … Read more

Number of patients being treated in ambulances soars and emergency calls go unanswered

The number of patients being forced to wait in ambulances is soaring amid rising hospital admissions, paramedics have warned – as it emerged the NHS is planning to send critically-ill patients from London to the West Country under emergency plans. NHS data shows that the number of patients waiting more than an hour to be handed to … Read more

Covid UK: UK records another 54,990 coronavirus cases and 454 deaths

More than 50,000 new coronavirus cases have been recorded for the sixth day in a row and another 454 deaths today as health officials warn that people as young as 30 ‘will die from Covid’. Official figures show there had been a further 54,990 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK, up 80 per cent … Read more

Covid UK: UK records another 54,990 coronavirus cases and 454 deaths

More than 50,000 new coronavirus cases have been recorded for the sixth day in a row and another 454 deaths today as health officials warn that people as young as 30 ‘will die from Covid’. Official figures show there had been a further 54,990 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK, up 80 per cent … Read more

Covid UK: Critically-ill patients from overwhelmed wards in London will be sent to West Country

Health officials today warned that people as young as 30 ‘will die from Covid’ as NHS hospitals in the West Country brace for an overspill of critically-ill patients from London under emergency plans. Trusts in London and the south-east at the centre of the UK’s epidemic are preparing to transfer patients to hospitals in the … Read more

Covid UK: Critically-ill patients from overwhelmed wards in London will be sent to West Country

Health officials today warned that people as young as 30 ‘will die from Covid’ as NHS hospitals in the West Country brace for an overspill of critically-ill patients from London under emergency plans. Trusts in London and the south-east at the centre of the UK’s epidemic are preparing to transfer patients to hospitals in the … Read more

Nightingale hospitals in London and across England are ‘reactivated and ready to admit patients’

Nightingale hospitals in London and across England have been ‘reactivated’ to be ready to admit patients as the capital’s NHS facilities struggle under the pressure of a new wave of coronavirus cases.  The Excel centre site has been readied after laying deserted for months as Britain yesterday recorded 981 Covid deaths in the deadliest day … Read more

What happened to the NHS’ army of volunteers? Former GP blows whistle on shambolic health service

A retired GP who offered to return to the NHS and fight the Covid pandemic has today accused the health service of incompetency by failing to properly utilise its army of volunteers. Dr Brian Cooper, 73, who used to work at Birmingham City Hospital, was one of tens of thousands of former medics to sign … Read more

What happened to the NHS’ army of volunteers? Former GP blows whistle on shambolic health service

A retired GP who offered to return to the NHS and fight the Covid pandemic has today accused the health service of incompetency by failing to properly utilise its army of volunteers. Dr Brian Cooper, 73, who used to work at Birmingham City Hospital, was one of tens of thousands of former medics to sign … Read more

London’s Nightingale hospital is being quietly broken down because there aren’t enough medics

Nightingale hospitals are being quietly taken apart as doctors and nurses warn there are not enough of them to keep the make-shift facilities open. Health bosses have already started stripping the emergency unit in London of its 4,000 beds, ventilators and even signs pointing patients to wards, shocking photos reveal, while the hospitals in Birmingham … Read more