Wednesday 7 February 2007

Sheffield: Operations postponed amid flood of emergency patients

A Yorkshire hospital that found itself overloaded with seriously ill patients was forced to postpone 36 operations in two days, reports the Yorkshire Post.

The Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust said that over the weekend higher than average numbers of emergency patients had over-stretched resources, forcing the Northern General Hospital to postpone 26 operations yesterday and a further 10 today.

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