Thu Jul 14, 2022 – 11:43 am EDT
(The Daily Sceptic) – All ambulance trusts in England were put on the highest alert on Tuesday amid long waiting times of many hours in some cases as ambulances queued up outside hospitals unable to hand over patients.
MailOnline has more.
“Rising COVID staff absences, the escalating heatwave, and ongoing delays in handing over patients to A&E [emergency room] have heaped extra pressure on ambulance services which were already in crisis mode.
All ten trusts have been put on a level four alert known as ‘Resource Escalation Action Plan (REAP) 4,’ which signals they are under ‘extreme pressure.’
As part of this, patients with emergencies that are not life threatening could be told to make their own way to hospital or seek alternative care – or face even longer waits than usual.
It comes amid a fifth wave of COVID infections across Britain, with 2.7 million (one in 24) people estimated to have been infected in the most recent week.
The rise of two mild but highly infectious omicron sub-strains have caused daily COVID hospital admissions to rise to a near 18-month high, with around 2,000 people being hospitalized
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