Two nurses are thought to be the source as cancer patients are treated for coronavirus.

The number of Covid-19 patients in hospitals across Liverpool could reach more than 400, the city's peak earlier this year, in the next 10 days, a city councillor has warned.

Doctors fear hospitals risk becoming overwhelmed by a second wave with one physician insisting it is a “mathematical certainty” that cases will “rise inexorably” without further curbs.Dr Allan Cameron

NHS staff shortages, lack of beds, absence of regular Covid testing for staff and a government completely unprepared getting it wrong at every turn is what's in store in the coming months

NHS document shows no spare beds for patients in Salford, Stockport and Bolton

Hospital situation ‘very concerning’ as Tier 3 stand-off continues

Some of the hospitals forced to take action over shortage of beds include:

The lives of mothers and babies are being put at risk as births in locations ranging from lifts to toilets - even a caravan - went up 15 per cent last year to almost 4,000.

We are lagging far behind our European neighbours, both in terms of ICU beds per 100 hospital beds and ICU beds per 100,000 of population.

Medics quizzed said health service cost-cutting has led to fewer hospital beds, increasing pressure on doctors to prescribe cheaper drugs, poorer occupational health support and reductions in...

Royal College of Physicians says there has been 37% rise in admissions over last 10 years and new hospital planning is needed

A total of 30,415 scheduled operations were cancelled in English NHS hospitals between April - September this year - largely due to a shortage of beds and staff and emergency cases taking priority,...

UK has second lowest number of beds per person in Europe, report shows, as NHS overcrowding breaches safety limit and raises risk of superbugs

Official NHS England statistics show 12 trusts became too full to admit any more patients last weekend

Health service figures show several casualty units were shut around the country and no spaces free even before onset of full winter conditions

A shortage of hospital beds in England is putting patients at increased risk of infection, a report says.

Bed shortages prompting concern for patient safety even before onset of winter weather and anticipated major flu outbreak

Every hospital in the country has been ordered to cancel all non-urgent surgery until at least February in an unprecedented step by NHS officials.

Doctors’ report finds 5,449 deaths since 2016 followed delayed admission to A&E

Lacey Taylor lay on the floor of Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital in her pyjamas and waited for five hours before she was eventually seen by an 'overstretched' doctor

Doctors say critical care places will run short if cases increase on the same scale as Italy

Some officials believe their Nightingale hospital may never have to treat a Covid-19 patient

Intensive care units in the city are at 90% capacity and two entire floors of a new hospital are out of action due to construction work

Early results from a study led by University of Manchester data scientists has shown that of the 47,243 excess deaths in England and Wales in the first nine weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, 9,948 –...