US EditionNHS facing 'worst case scenario' December amid 'super flu' surge
An average of 2,660 flu patients were hospitalized daily last week, a 55% increase from the previous week, with no peak in sight as NHS faces severe winter pressures.
- NHS England warned it faces a 'worst case scenario' in December as flu hospitalisations increased by 55 to an average of 2,660 patients per day last week.
- Health chiefs said the surge is driven by the dominant H3N2 strain , while norovirus hospitalisations rose 35% to 354 beds filled daily last week in England.
- New monthly figures show A&E attendances hit 2.35 million, ambulance services reported 48,814 more incidents than last year, and the waiting list for planned hospital treatment in England reached 7.40 million.
- Operations are being cancelled while the British Medical Association ballots members on Wes Streeting's offer as resident doctors could strike from December 17 to December 22.
- Professor Meghana Pandit, NHS national medical director, urged eligible people to get vaccinated and advised symptomatic people to wear masks as staff face record demand and strikes.
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The United Kingdom is facing an "unprecedented wave of super flu," warned the British public health service, while a doctor's strike is scheduled for five days shortly before Christmas. ...
UK ‘super flu’ explained amid soaring hospital admissions with mutated virus
NHS England is calling it a ‘super flu’, which is in fact its own phrase rather than anything scientific. It is severe, there is no doubt about that, and it has mutated. Not least because the NHS’ own figures show an average of 2,600 patients a day were in a hospital bed last week – up 55 per cent on the week before. That is enough, it said, to fill three NHS trust hospitals. The problem is the flu has come early this season and it has mutated, …
British doctors are warning of a "worst-case scenario" in the latest wave of flu infections. According to the Department of Health, the number of hospital admissions for flu has increased by 55% in a week. Authorities are advising those who feel unwell to wear masks when using public transport.
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