The system is described as being 'gridlocked'
City Hospital and the Queen's Medical Centre have declared the third critical incident in just six months. Directors at Nottingham University Hospitals NUH Trust said some operations had been cancelled amid mounting pressures on the health service and its emergency department in particular.
He added: "We've sadly had to cancel and defer some patients' operations because of the amount of pressure on our beds. So beds that we had expected to use for planned surgery we've had to use for the emergency patients that have come in over the weekend. On whether cancer patients will be affected, Mr Girling said he did not know the figures, but that the trust "may have lost" some cancer activity. "The ones that are the most time critical we have tried to maintain," he said. "I haven't had the data yet but we may have lost some cancer activity today."
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