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Every day was Christmas Day levels of attendance. But levels of attendances at A&E were very low.

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'During Covid, we were under pressure because it was a new illness, we didn't know a lot about it or how to treat it. 'We're all in a pretty similar position, we're all under a lot of pressure,' emergency medicine consultant and North West chair of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, Andy Ashton, told the M.E.N. In Greater Manchester's hospitals and beyond, doctors say they are finding it difficult. You can sign up very simply by following the instructions here

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Get the latest updates from across Greater Manchester direct to your inbox with the free MEN newsletter The proportion of patients being seen within four hours - the waiting time target which is in force across all of the region’s emergency units - should be at 95 per cent.īut over the course of last week, October 30 and 31, Wythenshawe saw its fulfilment of that target plummet to just ‘20 to 30 per cent’, the Manchester Evening News understands. Wythenshawe Hospital’s A&E department was filled with patients waiting for hours over the last weekend, October 30 and 31.

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Making matters worse, infection control measures are still crucial in hospital, according to Greater Manchester leaders, 'impacting on the capacity of already very full hospitals and the speed with which patients can be treated'. With a lack of beds for people needing admission after turning up at A&E, they are instead forced to wait for hours longer than they should, with one A&E seeing ‘70 per cent’ of patients waiting more than four hours in A&E last weekend. They say that, as people continue to mix socially as they have refrained from doing over the last 18 months, general coughs, colds and viral illnesses are spiking, leading people to seek help at hospital.Ī queue of ambulances outside Wythenshawe Hospital earlier this year The severity of cases is also being coupled with a general rise in the demand for urgent and emergency care, according to a host of doctors from across the region who have shared their concerns with the Manchester Evening News. Those patients are often showing up with conditions that have worsened during the pandemic, due to a delay in treatment as people were naturally concerned about going to hospital at the peak of virus transmission. The high volume of Covid patients in general beds has had a knock-on effect on the amount of time people spend in A&E, say hospital chiefs. READ MORE: Degrading A&E visits left a frightened Gran soaked in urine TWICE after she spent '24 hours abandoned on a trolley' The number of Covid patients hospitalised in general beds has increased by more than a third in just three weeks.Īnd as infection rates remain high, patients are 'staying in hospital for longer', according to the region's health bosses. Hospitals are struggling under pressure as general beds fill up with Covid-19 patients - leaving people waiting hours longer than they should for emergency help in A&E.

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