NHS faces an Easter ‘as bad as any winter’
Record numbers of patients have to wait four hours or more before being treated and discharged in A&E. …
“Trusts are doing all they can to bear down on care backlogs, which have increased during the pandemic for hospital, mental-health and community services,” says Chris Hopson, the chief executive of NHS Providers, which represents NHS Trusts. “But they face extraordinary pressures, including the continuing impact of Covid.