The Ministry of Defence has agreed to help fill staff shortages across the capital this month.
The Armed Forces have sent 200 personnel into NHS hospitals across London to plug staff shortages.
Pressure on London hospitals has increased over the past month, with 4,000 patients currently in hospital with Covid compared with 1,100 in early December. As of Thursday afternoon, 17 hospital trusts in England were experiencing critical incidents - about one in eight of the total.
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