Analysis: More honesty about the crisis facing the NHS is urgently needed

Analysis: More honesty about the crisis facing the NHS is urgently needed In the past two weeks, hospitals in London and across the southeast have had to declare major incidents, cancel operations and transfer patients to NHS trusts hundreds of miles away.

Some have struggled to deliver the volume of oxygen needed by patients sick with the coronavirus who are being cared for on makeshift wards set up in any spare room the hospitals can find. The Independent

See also:

• ‘We are not coping’: Paramedics warn of deaths as hundreds of emergencies wait hours for help The Independent