Shropshire's NHS health and care system declares critical incident Full details:
A county's whole NHS health and care system has declared a critical incident due to "continued and unprecedented pressures" on services.
Its hospitals were seeing "significant levels of Covid-19" alongside a high number of patients seeking help for other conditions, it said."Our aim is to prioritise patients with the highest level of need and ensure that we continue to be able to manage emergency care," a spokesman for the integrated care system said.
"We regret that it has been necessary to take this step, but it is important that we focus on patients needing urgent and emergency care as a priority," he added.The new warning follows several critical incidents at hospitals in the county already this year, including at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital
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