Covid-19, strikes, climate change and an ageing population are all contributing to "challenges unprecedented in NHS history", a hospital boss has warned.
Sir John Burn, chair of the Newcastle Hospitals NHS Trust, also singled out the impact of Long Covid as he laid out a series of factors facing his trust and the NHS more widely in a stark board report. Sir John said the task was to "maintain activity, standards and morale".
This comes as the trust sets out plans to reorganise its management structure, and is set against the backdrop of a number of further scheduled industrial walkouts in the NHS over the coming weeks. In a separate report, the trust's chief executive Dame Jackie Daniel set out the "painful toll" on staff when they're unable to provide the care they hope to.
