title: Pressures force hospitals to declare major incidents.
abstract: More than 40% of hospitals in England were forced to declare major incidents during the first week of January, as bed shortages led to delays in emergency departments (EDs), thousands of trolley waits for beds and long queues of ambulances outside units. Even cancer operations, normally protected, were cancelled.
authors.forename: Nick
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Evans
mesh_terms: D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004739:England; D006761:Hospitals / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013222:State Medicine / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006113:United Kingdom