The UK's busiest hospital is in "disaster medicine mode" and unable to provide "high standard critical care" because it is swamped by Covid-19 patients, it is claimed.
Dr Julia Grace Patterson, founder of NHS campaign group Every Doctor UK, claimed on Twitter that the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel had sent an email to notify staff of the dire situation.
It comes a day after senior medics at the east London hospital urged bosses to declare a major incident because staff were at a "breaking point" as the number of coronavirus patients tripled in just five days - from 200 on Christmas Eve to 638 on Tuesday.
As hospitals across the UK come under increasing strain during the devastating second wave of Covid-19, Dr Patterson tweeted:
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