‘We’re coping – but it’s precarious’
The peak of hospital cases may have passed in the south east – but hospitals in the Midlands are still braced…
Dr David Selwyn, the trust’s medical director, says: “We are in an old mining town in the north of Nottinghamshire. We have a lot of deprivation. We have a lot of smoking related disease and history from the mining industry”. So people have underlying health care issues associated with that, and we’ve seen that impact.