Some patients are being redirected to Nottinghamshire hospitals after a fire closed the A&E department at Lincoln County Hospital. The fire broke out in the early hours of the morning - on Tuesday, March 29 - and has led to "severe" damage to part of the hospital.
The Trust declared a major incident and asked people not to attend. Meanwhile, in a tweet released on Tuesday morning, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) said its emergency department was "really busy" - urging anyone with a medical concern which is not an emergency to contact NHS 111 online.
One affected patient, who didn’t wish to be named, said she went to A&E at Lincoln on Tuesday morning after suffering injuries to her face. She arrived just before 9am but said she was told by staff that she would instead have to go to the A&E department at Newark.
