Nottingham University Hospitals remains under a Critical Incident and provides this update at 4 pm on Tuesday 30 June.
A spokesperson said:
‘As of 4pm on Tuesday 30 June, we remain in a critical incident, although the situation has improved further during the day thanks to the extraordinary actions that our staff are taking.
‘Thanks to those actions, we are on course to achieve 350 core discharges of patients today.
‘We still currently have very high numbers of people in our emergency department, and patients are still waiting too long for their care.
‘With the pressure that we remain under, we expect to remain in the incident overnight and will review the status again tomorrow morning.
‘We know that many colleagues are working under very challenging circumstances, and are very grateful for how hard teams and individuals are working to protect safe care for our patients.’
How you can help
- If your relative is due to be discharged from hospital and needs to be collected, please do so as early as possible. This will help our teams and free up a hospital bed for someone waiting to be admitted.
- Only call 999 or attend ED for serious accidents and for life threatening emergencies.
- Where the situation is not life-threatening, alternative support will be available through NHS111 online or by calling 111.
- Urgent Treatment Centres (UTC) treat injuries including sprains, strains, suspected fractures, bites, cuts, scalds and other non-emergency conditions. Waiting times are usually much shorter than ED.
- Pharmacies can help with allergies, constipation, headaches and many other ailments, over 200 pharmacies in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire can provide NHS medicines for seven common conditions through the Pharmacy First service. Depending on your age, this includes Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs) in women, earache, shingles, sinusitis, impetigo and sore throats. See the website for details.
- Please do not visit your loved ones in hospital if you have any flu or other respiratory illness symptoms – please wait until you are better to visit them.
