Hospitals in England are taking on a new coronavirus sufferer every 30 seconds, the head of the NHS revealed today. NHS chief executive Simon Stevens said he could not "sugar-coat" the scale of the crisis on wards and in intensive care.
He told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: "Hospitals are under extreme pressure and staff are under extreme pressure. “Since Christmas Day we’ve seen another 15,000 increase in the inpatients in hospitals across England. “That’s the equivalent of filling 30 hospitals full of coronavirus patients. “And staggeringly, every 30 seconds across England, another patient is being admitted to hospital with coronavirus.” Speaking on a visit to Kingston Hospital in South West London he added: “That means for example that
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