A&E departments ‘absolutely full to bursting’ with flu blamed for making ‘bad situation even worse’, top medic says

Around half of accident and emergency departments, polled by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, have said they are “full to bursting” this Christmas. Dr Ian Higginson, its vice-president, told Sky News’ Gareth Barlow on Christmas Eve that the situation for the NHS in the UK is “pretty grim” at the moment. Dr Higginson said half responded and “all but two of them said that the emergency departments were absolutely full to bursting”.Read More