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Cuts left our NHS without a hope
Charity says beds and staff shortages will harm health services' recovery from Coronavirus pandemic
The hand of a patient grips the rail of a hospital bed in the X-ray department at The Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital in East Lancashire during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease in May
A DIRE lack of hospital beds and staff has crippled Britain’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, a damning report has revealed.
Experts at the Nuffield Trust think tank said that the NHS had started off in a much worse position going into the crisis compared with the health services of other countries such as Germany, which has far more beds and nurses.
The coronavirus death count in the UK is still the highest in Europe, with 45,677 deaths reported in hospitals and care homes.
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