Flu cases hit new winter high in England

The number of people being admitted to hospital with flu and norovirus has hit a new high for England this winter, with latest NHS figures showing that 2,226 beds were taken up by flu patients each day last week, up 70 per cent in a month.

The NHS said the data showed it was still “in the thick of a challenging winter”.

Professor Julian Redhead, NHS England’s clinical director for urgent and emergency care, said “Last week was evidence of why the NHS needed to grow its core bed numbers.”

NHS performance figures also showed that 34 per cent of hospital patients in England arriving by ambulance in the week to 18^th January had to wait for longer than 30 minutes to be handed over to A&E doctors, up from 32 per cent in the previous week and the joint highest rate so far this winter.

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