Hospitals may be forced to move Covid patients elsewhere

If the hospital begins to transfer patients, it is the first time that a small number of people have been transferred to other intensive care units since the principle of mutual aid was invoked at the peak of the pandemic.

By Saturday, there were 10,918 people in the hospital suffering from Covid19, An increase of 2,987 from the previous week, and an additional 326 deaths, for a total of 46,555 deaths.

Wigan and Stockport became Manchester’s first hospital system last week and began suspending surgery when the number of Covid patients across the metropolitan area approached its April peak. Wrightington Wigan and Leigh (WWL) Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has reduced some of its “less urgent services”.

The Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust has canceled non-essential regular surgery since Wednesday to make room for Covid treatment. Some cancer surgery in Nottingham was also canceled due to “pressure on the intensive care unit”.

Airedale Hospital in Keighley, West Yorkshire has postponed non-urgent and selective surgery requiring patients to stay overnight for two weeks as cases of Covid increase. capacity”.

The South West Acute Hospital (SWAH) in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, operated above capacity on Thursday and patients were waiting for their beds. The figure also shows that Altnagelvin does not have a free ICU bed and SWAH has two free ICU beds.

Dr. Sharma said the country’s blockade would be needed to stop the rise in infection rates, and the NHS would be overwhelmed if this did not begin to decline significantly.

“We need to make sure that community communication begins to decline. There are some signs that growth is beginning to decline in the northwest, which is why restrictions are so important, but Fees need to go down, and if they don’t start going down, the real problem of canceling more selective surgery and reopening more Nightingale hospitals arises, which we absolutely must avoid. It’s a situation that shouldn’t happen, otherwise it’s where the NHS is overwhelmed.

“At this point, southern England is four to five weeks behind and ICU capacity and other beds are fine, but in the north ICU and highly dependent beds are fairly tight and close to full capacity.”

A cardiologist consultant added: “The pinch point will come in the next three to four weeks. If the transmission speed doesn’t start slowing down, you run the risk of being overwhelmed.”

Cllr Paul Brant, Public Health and Social Welfare Minister of the Liverpool City Council, said hospitals in the area “are coping, but at the expense of having to constrain some of the options “.

“It’s knocking on the results because the NHS can’t work the way it wants. You have to cancel the elected procedure.”

He added: “I don’t want to use the word overwhelmed because I think the NHS will have enough capacity available, but the word I use is to see the NHS be badly affected.

“I think they will make sure they can be treated in an emergency, but it will come at the cost of not having many selected surgeries and many people who should go to the hospital not going to the hospital. Failure will result in higher levels of illness and death next month for non-covid reasons. “

Covid’s admissions to Welsh hospitals are also on the rise. The latest NHS Wales figures show 1,110 Covid-19 patients in hospital beds. This is more than 80% of the peak pandemic level in April.

Darren Hughes, Director of the Welsh NHS Confederation, said: “What we are seeing is part of an emergency response plan to address the impact of Covid, a field hospital that is beginning to be used not only in the RCT region, but elsewhere. In Wales. part.”

As of Friday, 28 wards across Scotland were banned from new admissions, 17 of which were in the NHS Greater and Glasgow Clyde areas, with reported hospital cases higher than at the first peak of the pandemic. I will.