"There are patients in every cubicle,"
"Another ambulance has just rocked up."
"When beds are full we have to move people - sometimes that means those who can sit are moved out of beds and into chairs,"
"I do struggle a lot in winter," she says. "I was maybe in here two or three weeks ago. Infections and s"
Leicester Royal Infirmary's emergency unit reaches full capacity by midday as an early winter surge of flu and other respiratory infections arrives. Cleaning teams rapidly strip and disinfect beds between patients while new arrivals wait on trolleys or in chairs. A mutated H3N2 strain appears more severe and is driving increased admissions alongside existing hospital pressures. Staff relocate ambulatory patients into chairs to free beds and work across resuscitation and assessment units to find spaces. A 19-year-old with flu and type 1 diabetes required urgent insulin and fluids, underscoring clinical complexity and concern about coping through winter.
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