Health
NHS moving dozens of Covid patients a day in search for ICU beds – The Guardian
NHS transfers average 38.5 patients a day in January, double the number during first wave
Dozens of Covid patients a day are being moved from one hospital to another because of a severe shortage of critical care beds across the NHS.
The NHS transferred a total of 1,079 people needing critical care in England, Wales and Northern Ireland to ICUs in different areas in the four weeks to 28 January an average of 38.5 a day.
That is far more than the 547 patients 18.2 a day who were taken from one hospital to another during the whole of last April, at the height of the first wave of the pandemic.
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