Hospitals across England remain under extreme pressure from winter flu cases with one hospital advertising for nurses to take on “corridor shifts” in its A&E department to help manage the surge in patients.
Last week nearly 20 hospitals declared critical incidents – the NHS’s highest alert level – to help cope with an influx of emergency presentations from the spike in serious winter flu cases, with people being treated in corridors and a patient at one hospital forced to wait 50 hours to be admitted to a ward.
