More than 100,000 NHS vacancies expected to make Nightingale hospitals hard to staff
Hospitals will be forced to cancel routine operations across England due to pressures from resurgent Covid despite the new lockdown measures, doctors’ leaders have warned.
The NHS is facing potentially “impossible” demands in the months ahead and hospitals everywhere would soon have to follow the lead of those in the north of England and Midlands by cancelling non-essential surgery, against the wishes of NHS bosses and ministers.