{"id":70027,"date":"2025-01-07T23:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T23:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=70027"},"modified":"2025-01-07T23:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T23:07:08","slug":"nhs-flu-crisis-now-nine-hospitals-declare-critical-incidents-as-infections-surge-to-exceptionally-high-levels-with-patients-facing-50-hour-waits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/01\/07\/nhs-flu-crisis-now-nine-hospitals-declare-critical-incidents-as-infections-surge-to-exceptionally-high-levels-with-patients-facing-50-hour-waits\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS FLU CRISIS: Now nine hospitals declare critical incidents as infections surge to &#8216;exceptionally high&#8217; levels &#8211; with patients facing 50 HOUR waits"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-70028\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Critial-Incident-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Critial-Incident-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Critial-Incident-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Critial-Incident-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Critial-Incident-770x770.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Critial-Incident-293x293.jpg 293w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Critial-Incident-360x360.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Critial-Incident.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nine hospitals have declared critical incidents after\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-03b4d9e0-cd01-11ef-a1ec-3394f59ee055\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/flu\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">flu<\/a><\/span>\u00a0cases &#8216;skyrocketed&#8217; over the\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-a91fc3a0-cd00-11ef-a1ec-3394f59ee055\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/christmas\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">Christmas<\/a><\/span> period, leaving some patients facing 50 hour waits to be seen.\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14258417\/major-hospital-critical-incident-flu-cases-high-ae.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Nine hospitals have declared critical incidents after\u00a0flu\u00a0cases &#8216;skyrocketed&#8217; over the\u00a0Christmas period, leaving some patients facing 50 hour waits to be seen.\u00a0 \u00a0Read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-70027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Critial-Incident.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70029,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70027\/revisions\/70029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}