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Article: By Monday night, there was only one bed for intensive care in the whole North-west
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 29, 1999
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HOSPITALS IN the North-west of England and London were left with
no spare intensive care beds yesterday and staff were "at breaking
point" after having to move seriously ill patients, doctors said.
At one point patients in the capital were facing transfers to as
far away as Yorkshire and Somerset in order to get an intensive care
bed.
At the University Hospital in Aintree, Merseyside, no intensive
care bed could be found for a critically ill woman because there was
nowhere suitable to move a less seriously ill patient. Staff prepared
an operating theatre recovery suite as a temporary intensive care
annexe for patients.
When a bed became free at lunchtime the relief was tangible. "It's
not ...