‘We can’t keep doing this,’ says chief executive of NHS Providers
“Staff flat out, esp. given level of staff absences. We will need to ask them to perform flexible heroics again if hospital covid numbers continue to rise,” he wrote.A new record of 162,572 Covid cases has been registered in the past 24 hours in England, government figures showed.
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