The NHS is under huge strain from the Omicron surge – with Prime Minister Boris Johnson admitting last night that the health service is on a ‘war footing’.
UK hospitals have started barring visitors in a desperate bid to slow the spread of Covid-19.admitting last night that the health service is on a ‘war footing’.
Similar decisions, now being taken by various local NHS chiefs, aim to reduce infection rates among staff and patients, with care already being compromised in certain parts of the country. That pressure has resulted in various others trusts across the country, including in York, Sheffield, Doncaster and Rotherham, banning almost all visitors in recent days.
Care and resources are being given to them at a time when the health service normally comes under significant strain from seasonal winter pressures.
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