predicted we would run out of ICU beds entirely by November 12. In response, Greater Manchester insists the picture - while not good - is being overstated.On Sunday, Andy Burnham said on the Andrew Marr show that the situation was being ‘exaggerated’ by Number 10, while this morning Stockport council’s leader Elise Wilson told broadcast media that, in fact, ICU occupancy is only roughly where it would be at this time of the year anyway.Yet in order to weigh up the true scale of the pressures and the political arguments, a range of clear, hospital-level data is needed.
That has not been entirely forthcoming in recent weeks as the pressures within the system have clearly grown.So this morning, the M.E.N.
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