A LEAKED NHS report has warned that the UK needs 25,000 hospital beds to treat coronavirus patients “well into July”. It states that if lockdown does not reduce cases significantly, the…
The document also pointed out that coronavirus patients are being hospitalised sooner than first thought - down from 13 days to nine on average.Despite this, the report admits it has not considered any seasonal effect on the spread of coronavirus, or extra measures to increase NHS capacity or “staff shortages that may arise”.
These concerns were reiterated by Alison Leary, professor of workforce modelling from London’s South Bank University.Asked for her view on the NHS England report, she said: “It is hard to see how this demand can continue to be met without either substantial extra workforce or compromises in the quality or safety of care.”
"In the meantime, the single most important measure anyone can take to avoid coronavirus admissions and to save lives is to follow the expert medical advice to reduce new infections.”in many parts of the country.He said it is expected to continue to flatten and decrease as the effects of social-distancing "really feed through into the illness we are seeing in hospital".
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