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Morecambe Bay NHS Trust, which operates three hospitals across north Lancashire and southern Cumbria, declared a Covid-19 critical incident last night following “relentless and sustained pressure” caused by “unprecedented staff absences”.
In an internal memo leaked to the Sunday Times, the trust’s chief executive Aaron Cummins, said that the move would lead to operations and appointments cancelled and staff redeployed which would allow the hospitals to “maintain safe services” for patients.
Boosters on [their] own should not be the front and centre of the strategy. We need to stop pretending we can boost our way out of this pandemic and start seriously thinking about keeping the infection levels as low as we possibly can by truly engaging with communities and the public, seeing … what we’re seeing and supporting businesses and supporting local services to carry on doing their main jobs during this crisis.
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