Tag: Incidental Admissions

Hospitals have brought back face masks and social distancing following a recent surge in Covid infections and hospitalisations, despite two thirds of Covid admissions being treated primarily for something else.

Several NHS Trusts have issued acute pressure warnings, telling people to stay away if possible. But the 'perfect storm' they say they are experiencing is more a self-induced squall.

The majority of Covid patients in hospitals in England are not primarily being treated for the virus for the first time, rising to almost two thirds in London, official statistics show.