Hospital Bed Crisis in Emergency Departments | Hospital S3 E1 | Our Stories

January 2018, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham. A huge influx of patients into the emergency department results in dozens of people lying on trolleys waiting to be admitted. With A&E departments across the country bursting at the seams, NHS bosses make an unprecedented move: they advise every hospital in England to cancel all operations that are not clinically urgent or for cancer. The hope is that this will release beds for the patients queuing to get into A&E.

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