coronavirus patients rose dramatically. The Royal Stoke University Hospital made the decision after 38 Covid patients on ventilators, prompting the alert level to be raised.
According to Stoke-on-Trent Live, Hospital management has just seven ventilators left with 322 coronavirus patients currently in beds at the beleaguered site.
It's being reported that the hospital's bosses have reached an agreement with NHS trusts in Birmingham and Coventry and Warwickshire to transfer some of their critically-ill patients to hospitals in the West Midlands in a bid to try to lessen the strain.This arrangement remains in place until midday on Tuesday and will be reviewed daily.Royal Stoke chief executive Tracy Bullock has apologised to patients and.