{"id":636,"date":"2020-12-31T13:43:27","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T13:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauk-on-good-morning-britain-dr-samantha-batt-rawden-warns-of-hospitals-struggling-to-cope-with-surge-in-covid-19-cases\/"},"modified":"2020-12-31T13:43:27","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T13:43:27","slug":"dauk-on-good-morning-britain-dr-samantha-batt-rawden-warns-of-hospitals-struggling-to-cope-with-surge-in-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauk-on-good-morning-britain-dr-samantha-batt-rawden-warns-of-hospitals-struggling-to-cope-with-surge-in-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"DAUK on Good Morning Britain: Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden warns of hospitals struggling to cope with surge in Covid-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DAUK President Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden appeared on Good Morning Britain, warning that hospital capacity is becoming overwhelmed in the South East as Covid-19 cases continue to rise.<\/p>\n<p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Intensive care units across the South East are full. We\u2019ve created surge capacity despite that, turned wards into temporary ICUs. We\u2019ve got ventilators and anaesthetic machines from theatres, which has meant we\u2019ve had to cancel operations. And despite that, all our surge capacity is now full. We are talking about transferring patients out of the South East up to the North. Things are really, really, really bad.<\/p>\n<p><cite>Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden, DAUK president<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DAUK President Dr Sammy Batt-Rawden on Good Morning Britain 30.12.20\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SWrI65znKnE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAUK President Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden appeared on Good Morning Britain, warning that hospital capacity is becoming overwhelmed in the South East as Covid-19 cases continue&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":[52,44,38,54,364,132,33,34,42,312],"class_list":["post-636","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-dr-samantha-batt-rawden","tag-good-morning-britain","tag-nhs","tag-press","tag-press-covid-19","tag-the-doctors-association-uk","tag-tv-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","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=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}