Fifty of 152 English hospital trusts called for urgent action to cope with demand in run-up to Christmas, says Nuffield thinktank
The NHS is on the brink of winter crisis after a larger than expected increase in patient numbers caused nearly a third of hospital trusts in England to warn they needed urgent action to cope.
The BBC commissioned the Nuffield Trust health thinktank to look at four weeks of hospital data in the run-up to Christmas and found that 50 of the 152 English trusts were at the highest or second-highest level of pressure.
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