NHS Feeling The Heat As Temperatures Soar
Manchester Evening News|July 13, 2022
Warm weather puts more pressure on A&E units and ambulances
Helena Vesty
NHS Feeling The Heat As Temperatures Soar

Greater Manchester’s NHS appears to be creaking under pressure as it deals with ‘extremely busy’ emergency departments, ambulances queueing up outside A&Es, and the region’s ambulance service declaring its version of a ‘black alert’.

The huge demand typically relents in the summer giving the NHS precious time to recover before winter hits again, but challenges remain as the health services battles through a heatwave.

Yesterday, North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) raised its operational pressure levels to the Resource Escalation Action Plan (REAP) level four – commonly known as a ‘critical incident’.

Level four is the highest available, and ‘indicates a potential for failures’ within ambulances services as they try to cope with ‘extreme pressure’, according to the national NHS framework.

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