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Nottingham University Hospitals NHS trust declares critical incident
Nottingham University Hospitals faces patient numbers exceeding capacity by over 150 daily, driven by winter infections and staff shortages since Christmas, officials said.
- On Tuesday, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust declared a critical incident, saying patients faced significant and unacceptable delays across services.
- Since Christmas, rising winter infections and staff sickness produced severe pressure on NUH, following four hospital trusts in southeast England declaring critical incidents on Monday after a surge in complex A&E admissions.
- The trust reported that the Queen's Medical Centre emergency department was designed for 350 patients per day but regularly saw more than 500, and demand on hospital beds exceeded all forecast modelling, causing lengthy corridor waits.
- The trust will open all available beds and spaces, redeploy staff, rearrange elective procedures, and work with NHS and local partners to speed discharges.
- The trust has asked the public to use A&E only in an emergency, to call 111 for other issues, and East Midlands Ambulance Service urged 999 only for life-threatening emergencies.
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Critical incident declared in Nottingham as hospitals face 'pressures like never before'
The trust that runs the Queen's Medical Centre (QMC) and City Hospital in Nottingham has declared a critical incident after admitting it is 'experiencing pressures like never before'
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