Health secretary Jeremy Hunt sorry as A&Es struggle to cope Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has apologised to patients in England who have had their operations postponed.
Non-urgent treatments had already been cancelled until mid-January, but NHS England said on Tuesday that would now be extended to the end of the month.
It came after hospitals reported they were struggling to cope with the surge in patients being seen since Christmas.
At least 17 hospital trusts - one in 10 - have declared a major incident in the last 24 hours, the BBC understands.
Bosses said they had been forced into the move as patients were experiencing long waits in A&E and being left on trolleys in corridors because there were no beds available. BBC News
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Non-urgent treatments had already been cancelled until mid-January, but NHS England said on Tuesday that would now be extended to the end of the month.
It came after hospitals reported they were struggling to cope with the surge in patients being seen since Christmas.
At least 17 hospital trusts - one in 10 - have declared a major incident in the last 24 hours, the BBC understands.
Bosses said they had been forced into the move as patients were experiencing long waits in A&E and being left on trolleys in corridors because there were no beds available. BBC News
See also:
- NHS 'better prepared for winter than ever' BBC News
- Sarah Wollaston urges government to get a grip on NHS 'crisis' BBC News
- Jeremy Hunt's 10-year-old plan to revamp NHS The Daily Mail
- NHS chief DENIES crisis despite 55,000 delayed operations The Daily Mail
- Patients dismiss claims hospitals are like 'third world' The Daily Mail
- NHS chiefs urge relatives to help them ease crisis The Daily Mail
- Jeremy Hunt apologises to patients over cancellation of thousands of NHS operations The Daily Telegraph
- Here's the real reason the NHS is on its knees – and it has little to do with A&E The Daily Telegraph
- There is no winter NHS 'crisis', just a series of challenges that won't be solved without deep reform The Daily Telegraph
- Come and collect your elderly, hospital trusts say, amid soaring numbers of 'black alerts' The Daily Telegraph
- PM hails NHS readiness for winter as operations are cancelled GPonline
- Patients' charity attacks ministers over NHS winter crisis The Guardian
- Doctors and patients accuse government of failing to stop NHS crisis The Guardian
- The Tories knew there would be an NHS winter crisis but did nothing | Polly Toynbee The Guardian
- The Guardian view on the NHS winter crisis: not such a happy birthday | Editorial The Guardian
- 'My mum was treated with dignity': NHS care amid the winter crisis The Guardian
- GPs under growing pressure as well as A&Es OnMedica
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