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Covid-19: Critical care wards are full in hospitals across England – BBC News
Very few spare beds for the most seriously ill patients in parts of the country, the NHS says.
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image captionStaff are in “the eye of the storm” amid the coronavirus pandemic, the NHS says.
Ten hospital trusts across England reported having no spare critical care beds for most of last week.
It comes as hospital waiting times, coronavirus admissions and patients requiring intensive care rises.
Across all England’s acute trusts the total number of critical care beds available is 5,503, with 4,632 in use on 10 January.
NHS England has not yet commented. Last year,…
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