Hospital trust ramps up Covid response to avoid being overwhelmed by third wave
(World News UK)

The largest NHS hospital trust in England is redeploying staff to critical care and standing down elective surgery in a bid to avoid being overwhelmed by a third wave of Covid cases. The University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust (UHB) is boosting its intensive treatment unit (ITU) capacity to more than 250 beds, and will support capacity for 1,000 in-patients. It currently has 125 Covid-positive patients in ITUs across its three main hospital sites; the Queen Elizabeth and Heartlands Hospitals, both in Birmingham, and Good Hope in Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands. There are also another 873 in-patients being treated with...