Leanne Cooper, chief operating officer at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, says: “We need the public’s help to only come to A&E if it is a genuine life/limb-threatening emergency so we can care for our sickest patients.

Source: https://www.cravenherald.co.uk/news/23385422.plea-airedale-hospital-e-hit-industrial-action/?ref=rss

“The illest children and the sickest adults need to be transferred out of Surrey Memorial Hospital for a higher level of care because we do not have the life-saving interventions here, locally, at south of the Fraser,” he said in the video.

Source: https://globalnews.ca/news/9948778/surrey-memorial-hospital-progress-report/

While this is likely to increase the waiting times, we can assure the public that all patients attending an ED will be seen and the sickest patients and those requiring urgent treatment will be prioritised.

Source: https://carlow-nationalist.ie/2023/12/27/eight-things-to-know-if-you-need-to-go-to-the-emergency-department-over-winter/

Women who are more sensitive to the hormone get the sickest, said Dr. Stephen O’Rahilly, a professor and co-director of the Wellcome-Medical Research Council Institute of Metabolic Science at the University of Cambridge, who led the collaboration.

Source: https://www.deseret.com/2023/12/14/24001200/extreme-morning-sickness-pregnant-women-help-coming