The latest Covid-19 wave has yet to peak, Bristol and Weston NHS hospitals' chief executive says.
The outgoing chief executive of an NHS Trust has warned the Covid-19 Omicron variant is "surging".
"We actually have more pressure in terms of Covid inpatients than we did at the previous January peak," he said.Mr Woolley said the surge in cases meant the trust was struggling to reduce patient numbers on the waiting list, according to the A report to the board said wards had been understaffed because of Covid-related absence through February.But it added there was a risk that staff being asked to take on more duties to help cut waiting lists "will continue to feel overworked and become ill which could result in further reductions in workforce".There are currently 100 people with Covid in the Bristol Royal Infirmary, 30 in Weston General Hospital and 13 in Bristol Children's Hospital.
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