It’s been reported that rising pressure on hospitals has had an impact on A&E waiting times, with a patient at one hospital having to wait 50 hours.
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00:00It's been reported that rising pressure on hospitals has had an impact on A&E waiting
00:06times, with a patient at one hospital having to wait 50 hours.
00:10This comes as this winter has been coined a quaddemic, with flu, norovirus, covid and
00:14RSV circulating at the same time.
00:17The UK's chief emergency doctor, Adrian Boyle, said that the flu outbreak had severe consequences
00:23for already overwhelmed hospitals.
00:25Furthermore, National Medical Director of NHS England, Professor Sir Stephen Powis,
00:30reportedly said that the demand showed no signs of letting up.
00:34It's reported that the North East is seeing the most hospitalisations from influenza,
00:38with that number in the thousands.
00:40In the Midlands, there are reportedly almost 300 people hospitalised for flu in Birmingham.
00:46Health Secretary Wes Streeting reportedly said that we've got this extraordinary pressure
00:51on flu, where we've got between three and four times as many hospital beds taken up
00:56with flu cases this year than we did this time last year.
00:59But what's your experience been with the flu this winter?