LONDON hospitals are facing a 'continuous tsunami' of seriously-ill patients because of the coronavirus pandemic, an NHS boss has warned.
crisis, a health service leader has claimed. Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers, which organises NHS trusts, said hospitals are experiencing an"explosion of demand". He told BBC Radio 4's Today Programme:"They [London hospitals] are struggling with two things. The first is the explosion of demand they are seeing in seriously ill patients."They talk about wave after wave after wave - the word that’s often used to me is a continuous tsunami.
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