The peak of demand for NHS trusts in London and the South East may have passed, but hospitals in the East Midlands fear the worst for them may still be to come.
King's Mill Hospital at Sutton-in-Ashfield near Mansfield - one of the hospitals within the trust - has more than 200 Covid patients, more than double the number at the peak last April. As in other areas, there's a mutual support system in the East Midlands with hospitals taking on patients from others which may be overstretched.
Jen Aldred, who has been a nurse for 21 years, who's been redeployed to ICU, says the shifts in recent weeks have been "the toughest I have ever had".
THEY ARE DOING THEIR FUCKING JOB!! Why do we continually blow smoke up their arses
What would help is some proper reporting by the BBC. Challenge and probe as you are meant to. You have behaved disgracefully stoking fear.
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