Hospitals across Greater Manchester, and the North West Ambulance Service, revealed staff are dealing with ever-growing numbers of patients.
It comes as the NHS is in difficulty nationally as it deals with a huge backlog of operations delayed during the pandemic, rocketing Covid cases, and the resulting hospitalizations and patients whose medical conditions have grown worse during multiple lockdowns.
Many pharmacies and walk-in centres remained open across Greater Manchester over the weekend, and regional NHS chiefs stressed that GP appointments were made available for those who needed them.
However, patients still took to A&E, putting increased pressure on services.
Ged Blezard, director of operations for North West Ambulance Service, told the M.E.N.: “We'd anticipated a very pressured few days and had prepared by rostering on 20 percent additional vehicles and control room staff. While we did see periods of high demand throughout the bank holiday weekend across our 999 and 111 services, we managed it well.”
This story is from the April 20, 2022 edition of Manchester Evening News.
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