One in five hospitals have no spare ICU beds as operations are cancelled to make way for Covid patients
ONE in five hospitals have no spare ICU beds as operations have been cancelled to make way for Covid-19 patients, it has been reported.
Hospitals nationally are treating more Covid-19 patients than they were in spring and NHS bosses have warned it could stay that way until at least February.
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In a letter seen by the journal, NHS England bosses have ordered dozens of trusts to open the emergency capacity by Friday to try and take the pressure off the worst-hit hospitals.
It reporteldy says transfers from the East and London will go to the largest Midlands trusts, who may go to smaller trusts.
Boris Johnson has warned there is a “substantial risk” that the NHS will run out of intensive care beds as hospitals struggle to cope with a surge in Covid cases.