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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Jonathan Kanengoni and Daniel Keane

London hospital pressures at ‘all time high as vulnerable pensioners arrive in A&E with hypothermia’

A woman walks during misty weather in Primrose Hill, London.

(Picture: PA)

A London nurse has said that pressures on A&E departments are at an “all-time high” following plummeting temperatures that have left vulnerable people, including pensioners and rough sleepers, admitted with hypothermia.

The UK has been hit with freezing conditions this week, including snow and ice, with the capital facing temperatures under 0C as a cold blast of air sweeps across from the Arctic.

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