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The UK's hospital system is on the brink of collapse, forcing overworked staff to postpone cancer treatments, stretch oxygen supplies, and put themselves at risk of catching COVID-19

that 800 patients were being admitted to hospitals in the capital city every day, and that the health service would be overwhelmed in two weeks if cases don't drop significantly.Independent"Some cancer work is being postponed again like it was in March and April which is not where we want to be. But we just don't have the staff, the space, or the capacity in the hospital to manage those patients," Dolphin said.Dr.

A nurse works on a patient in the ICU in St George's Hospital in Tooting, south-west London, on January 7, 2020."Every day or every week a new ward has to be opened up to accommodate the new patients, and subsequently we have to hire more and more temporary staff," Dewan said.

"The increase in COVID positive cases within our hospitals started to accelerate over the Christmas period which is very concerning," Girling said in a statement, but added they are making "excellent progress" on vaccinations.Instead of doing his normal job anaesthetizing patients for operations and other procedures, Dolphin has retrained, and now spends his days vaccinating as many people as he can.

In order to be able to keep services afloat, Dolphin said that all healthcare workers must be vaccinated by the end of January. More than one in seven staff are off work sick in some hospitals, he said. According to the chair of the British Medical Association, Chaand Nagpaul, there are more than 46,000 hospital staff off sick with COVID-19, per the

 

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