Critical incident stays in place at city hospitals

A critical incident remains in place at Nottingham's hospitals continues despite an improving situation, health bosses have said.

On Monday Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs the Queen's Medical Centre and Nottingham City Hospital, declared the status due to "severe and sustained pressure" on services.

At that stage, there were 188 people waiting to be seen in A&E, 20 ambulances waiting with patients and "lengthy waits" for patients in corridors, the trust said.

Despite an expected 350 core discharges of patients, officials said on Tuesday there were still very high numbers of people in the emergency department and patients were still waiting too long for their care.

A spokesman for the trust said: "With the pressure that we remain under, we expect to remain in the incident overnight and will review the status again tomorrow morning.

"We know that many colleagues are working under very challenging circumstances, and are very grateful for how hard teams and individuals are working to protect safe care for our patients."

The public have been asked to help the hospitals by collecting relatives to are fit to go home and only using emergency services for serious or life-threatening problems.

An appeal has also been made for anyone with flu or other respiratory illness symptoms to delay visiting the hospital until the illness has passed.

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