🔴 A GP surgery in Nottinghamshire has been forced to cap the number of same-day “urgent” appointments after it was left trying to cope with more than 100 patients per doctor – four times the safe daily limit – for several weeks
The British Medical Association recommends no more than 25 contacts per day, but practice lists have ballooned in recent years – from fewer than 7,000 patients on average in 2014 to 2015 to more than 9,000 now. Over the same period the number of GPs has fallen.
St Georges – a major trauma centre – said its “emergency departments and hospitals are under extreme pressure right now” and that it was expected to stay that way for months. United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust – which runs Boston Pilgrim and Lincoln County hospitals – has delcared its third critical incident in three weeks. It aid it took the stepGuy’s and St Thomas’, in London, has been forced to open a critical care surge ward to cope with numbers of seriously ill patients – a move not seen since the height of the Covid pandemic.
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