Adults are told to wear a mask if ill and need to go out, as the NHS faces 'intolerable' pressures.
It was "sensible" to ask ill adults to wear masks if needed to go out, he said, but best to stay home if possible.There have been sharp rises in the numbers of people in hospital with Covid and flu in recent weeks - about one in eight beds in England is now occupied by patients with these infections.
Senior doctors have described the NHS as on a knife edge, with some accident and emergency units in a "complete state of crisis". In recent days, a number of hospitals have declared critical incidents, suggesting they cannot function as usual because of extraordinary pressure. Labour criticised the government's management of the health service, while the Liberal Democrats called for Parliament to be recalled early.Prof Phil Banfield, who chairs the British Medical Association, which represents doctors, called on the government to "step up and take immediate action".
The situation was "intolerable and unsustainable", he said, with the NHS's survival on a knife edge and patients needlessly dying because of a political [email protected] include a contact number if willing to speak to a BBC News journalist. You can also make contact in the following ways:
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