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Official data suggests hospitals are less busy now than last 2 winters:
Emergency Nightingale hospitals have remained unused since Spring
“statistics suggest the health service is, overall, coping better with its workload than it did last winter” https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9072773/Britains-deserted-Nightingale-hospitals-Facilities-built-relieve-strain-empty.html
Emergency Nightingale hospitals have remained unused since Spring
“statistics suggest the health service is, overall, coping better with its workload than it did last winter” https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9072773/Britains-deserted-Nightingale-hospitals-Facilities-built-relieve-strain-empty.html
“A greater proportion of ward beds are free, intensive care units have more room and A&E departments aren't yet turning ambulances away more often than usual...”
“the occupancy figure does not take into account bolstered capacity at the mothballed Nightingale hospitals, which went unused after being built during the first wave in case wards were overrun with Covid, or the thousands of additional beds commandeered from the private sector”
“The NHS is also benefitting from 'record levels of staff', according to the Department of Health, which is headed by Matt Hancock, boasted in August. The number of nurses in England has increased by 13,840 compared with last year, and the number of doctors has risen by 9,306”
