• Emerg Nurse · Feb 2017

    Pressures force hospitals to declare major incidents.

    • Nick Evans.
    • Emerg Nurse. 2017 Feb 10; 24 (9): 8-9.

    AbstractMore than 40% of hospitals in England were forced to declare major incidents during the first week of January, as bed shortages led to delays in emergency departments (EDs), thousands of trolley waits for beds and long queues of ambulances outside units. Even cancer operations, normally protected, were cancelled.

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