Daily Mirror – NHS front line: Perfect storm
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NHS front line: Perfect storm
The NHS is facing a crisis with soaring staff absences and a large rise in COVID patients, the Daily Mirror reports.
The paper describes it as a “perfect storm” of pressure on the NHS front line. It pictures a statistics board at Blackpool hospital showing three measures in red – including the longest wait to see a doctor at over six hours. It quotes a union boss as saying: “We are nearly at breaking point.”
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