BMA report highlights winter strain NHS services are facing

The real story of winter was characterised by the incredibly hard work of NHS staff to meet record levels of demand for emergency care to avoid a winter crisis, according to medical leaders. A report by the British Medical Association entitled NHS Pressures – Winter 2018/19; A Hidden Crisis looked at this winter‘s hidden pressures on the NHS and highlights that almost one in four waited over four hours at major A&Es and there were 292 A&E diverts across 32 trusts. Cancer patients wait for treatment The report also states that almost a third of trusts hit 100% bed occupancy at some point over the winter, and the waiting