Speaking on the BBC Today program on Wednesday, Professor Harrison said he was currently considering training hospitals in Oxford on sending emergency patients to state-of-the-art facilities. ‘aca.
“Our intensive care unit here is full of Covid patients, and that’s nine beds available with us,” he said.
“If we see another increase, we have more capacity to ask for from our neighboring groups, which would mean evacuating patients.
“What we do for patients who need that care higher, we come to a clinical decision is whether there is a patient who can retire from emergency care or who needs to move out. ”
Dr Harrison said: “In the first or second wave, we do not have to move any patients out yet. “
From Boxing Day, Sussex, Oxfordshire, Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Hampshire – with the exception of New Forest – all parts of Essex and Surrey will be moved into Stage 4.
The move means that more than half of England’s population, 26 million people, will be living under the harshest restrictions.
Ministers are also coming under pressure to ban covid’s disease across England.