NHS crisis in charts: how Covid has increased strain on health service

There has been high demand for healthcare in England this winter. These charts show where the pressure points are

The NHS is in the grips of a winter crisis like no other. Friday was the ninth day in a row in which the number of people being treated in hospital for Covid hit a new high, with 32,975 patients now on wards across England.

Seventeen NHS trusts are treating more coronavirus patients than non-Covid patients and six have more than 50% of beds taken up by Covid patients. One in five English trusts treated at least twice as many patients on at least one day last week as in their first-wave peak.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/3soE6ZT