Urgent plea to only use A&E in Greater Manchester if life-threatening

The NHS has made an urgent entreaty to radical successful Greater Manchester to lone spell to A&E departments if they person "a life-threatening emergency".

High numbers of patients and unit sickness has led to unit "beyond thing we person experienced before", NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care said.

An summation successful flu and Covid was besides blamed for "very agelong waits".

People are asked to usage different services, including NHS 111, GPs and pharmacists.

Professor Jane Eddleston, Greater Manchester Medical Executive pb for acute care, said it was ever engaged aft the Christmas interruption but this "has been beyond thing we person experienced before".

"We are making an urgent plea to the nationalist successful Greater Manchester to lone telephone 999 oregon be Accident and Emergency Departments if their information is simply a life-threatening emergency.

"Unprecedented levels of attendance astatine A&E, unit sickness and accrued prevalence of flu and Covid person led to precise agelong waits successful exigency departments and for ambulances."

GP practices and pharmacies are unfastened arsenic mean betwixt Christmas and New Year, the NHS added.

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