Friday 23 February 2018

Flu and norovirus cases are still piling pressure on A&E

Flu and norovirus cases are still piling pressure on A&E Cases of flu and norovirus are continuing to put pressure on A&E departments.

The number of bed closures due to norovirus or diarrhoea and vomiting rose to an average of 841 per day last week, up from 817 in the seven days before.

Weekly figures from NHS England also reveal 13,300 patients waited more than 30 minutes to be seen after arriving at A&E by ambulance, and of those 2,900 waited for longer than an hour.

This was an increase from the week ending February 11, when around 10,800 people waited more than half-an-hour and 2,200 more than an hour. The Daily Mail

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