{"id":627,"date":"2020-12-30T19:16:54","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T19:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauk-in-the-financial-times-covid-hospital-patient-numbers-in-england-rise\/"},"modified":"2020-12-30T19:16:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T19:16:54","slug":"dauk-in-the-financial-times-covid-hospital-patient-numbers-in-england-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauk-in-the-financial-times-covid-hospital-patient-numbers-in-england-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"DAUK in the Financial Times: Covid hospital patient numbers in England rise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>In London we\u2019re at where we were in the first wave and it\u2019s going to get much worse over the next few weeks. A lot of places are cancelling planned care and surgeries to free up staff and beds for Covid patients.<\/p><cite>Dr Dolin Bhagawati, DAUK Editorial Lead<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The number of people in hospital with Covid-19 has surpassed the April peak in England, according to official data that emerged as the UK government prepared to decide whether to tighten restrictions on millions of Britons.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The high volumes are in part because of a deeper understanding by clinicians of how to treat the disease, according to NHS officials. Far more are surviving than earlier in the pandemic, but they may require weeks on a hospital ward to recover fully, doctors noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NHS leaders have warned that hospital capacity is at breaking point. \u201cPeople are incredibly worried about what is to come. We\u2019re in the eye of the storm, and the storm means something big and destructive \u2014 it\u2019s a hugely challenging time,\u201d said Saffron Cordery, deputy chief executive of NHS Providers, which represents leaders across the health service.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NHS leaders have spent months pressing the health service to make up lost ground by performing surgery and procedures delayed during the pandemic, with significant success.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, Dolin Bhagawati, a London neurosurgeon who speaks for the Doctors\u2019 Association UK, said rising Covid-19 admissions would have an inevitable impact on other services. \u201cIn London we\u2019re at where we were in the first wave and it\u2019s going to get much worse over the next few weeks,\u201d he said. \u201cA lot of places are cancelling planned care and surgeries to free up staff and beds for Covid patients.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the rest of the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/9e4ffdab-8245-44d6-a110-206c6cc94796\" class=\"rank-math-link\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In London we\u2019re at where we were in the first wave and it\u2019s going to get much worse over the next few weeks. A lot&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,29,58],"tags":[52,44,38,119,132,33,34,42,275],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dauk-news","category-protect-the-frontline","category-the-nhs","tag-protectthefrontline","tag-covid-19","tag-dauk","tag-dolin-bhagawati","tag-nhs","tag-press","tag-press-covid-19","tag-the-doctors-association-uk","tag-the-financial-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}