'The whole system has fallen down': It's the night before Christmas and this is what's happening in our hospitals
manchestereveningnews.co.ukAs most of Greater Manchester settles down for a peaceful Christmas, doctors say they are walking into ‘complete carnage’. Waits of more than 36 hours for a bed, frail patients breaking limbs as they wait in A&E departments, elderly people in their 80s and 90s getting pressure sores from hours lying on trolleys in corridors.
During the pandemic, hosts of doctors, nurses and health carers across the country feared they could be ‘one admission away from disaster’.
But on the approach to this winter, the messages coming out of the NHS appear troublingly similar to those when coronavirus tore through the UK.
Now, NHS chiefs warn of a ‘quad-demic’ sweeping the health service, of flu and norovirus cases rising by hundreds, and of record numbers of hospital beds filled.
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