title: NHS' annual scramble to avert winter crisis.
abstract: The NHS is facing its toughest ever winter. There are fears that trusts may be forced to use beds in private nursing homes, reopen wards that have been disused and create new ones to enhance capacity. Trusts are attempting to recruit nurses from abroad to address staff shortages in a bid to cope with the expected impact of flu, norovirus and predicted bad weather.
authors.affiliation: Editor in Chief British Journal of Nursing.
authors.forename: Ian
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Peate
mesh_terms: D012621:Seasons; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006113:United Kingdom