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Jan 2022
According to Leeds City Council, a shortage of care workers is blocking nearly 300 hospital beds in the city. Cath Roff, Leeds City Council’s director of adults and health, said new staff were being sought, but it was challenging. She added that increasing supermarket wages meant people could work somewhere “less stressful, for more…
18
Jan 2022
The chief executive of the James Paget University Hospital in Norfolk has said that the hospital has unprecedented staff sickness levels due to Covid-19 and was ‘completely full’ on Tuesday. Currently, 11 per cent of the hospital’s staff are absent, compared to its normal rate of around 4 per cent. Anna Hills, chief…
18
Jan 2022
NHS data shows that the number of people on a hospital waiting list in England has reached six million for the first time, around one in 20 of those have been waiting for longer than a year. The figure is for the end of November and includes operations such as hip and knee surgery.…
11
Jan 2022
Staff shortages and rising pressures due to Covid-19 have led to critical incidents being declared at several hospital trusts. Blackpool Teaching Hospitals, University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust and Great Western Hospitals in Wiltshire have all been hit hard. Derriford Hospital in Plymouth has declared problems offloading ambulances and has recorded nearly 500…
11
Jan 2022
Some non-urgent operations are being cancelled at Greater Manchester hospitals as staff shortages and the “rising impact” of Covid continue to affect NHS trusts. In addition according to Downing Street, more than 20 NHS trusts in England have declared critical incidents. Health chiefs in Greater Manchester said around 15 per cent of their…
11
Jan 2022
The government is being warned that a long-term plan to fix the NHS staffing crisis is needed to reduce record waiting lists for treatment. There are currently approaching six million people in England waiting for routine procedures and operations, many of whom are in pain. A report from MPs says the government needs…
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