The situation is being reviewed on a daily basis
A Nottinghamshire health boss has urged people to use NHS services wisely after a critical incident was declared. The alert was expanded to the whole of Nottinghamshire on Thursday, September 29, one day after Nottinghamshire University Hospitals Trust , which runs QMC and City Hospital, declared a critical incident, cancelling some non-urgent appointments.
"People should use the services as wisely as possible, really, to make sure that our highest level emergency services can be used for those who are most in need. They should avoid going to A&E if they possibly can or not ring 999 unless it's an emergency. I would encourage people to use the 111 service and we do have treatment centres that people can go to. We do thank people for using the NHS wisely.
Ms Sullivan said a spike in the number of Covid patients was also contributing to the pressures, citing the fact that 243 people were in hospital with the virus on Wednesday, September 28. "We want to get into as good a position as we can before we redeploy staff back into their original roles," Ms Sullivan continued. "We will continue to review that early next week, so it's days rather than anything else would be our anticipation, but we will review that on a daily basis."
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