9 in 10 hospitals will be overcrowded this winter

The number of patients on hospital wards in England was at unsafe levels at nine out of 10 NHS trusts last winter, analysts have found.

To minimise the risk of infections and delays in getting treatment, hospitals are meant to have no more than 85% of beds occupied.

But the analysis showed 137 out of 152 hospital trusts stayed above that level the whole of  December 2017.

Hospital bosses described some of the weeks as the “worst” they had ever seen.

The overcrowding lead to long waits for treatment and operations being cancelled at the last minute.

It was complete chaos…

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