DESPERATE health bosses are asking staff at Grantham Hospital to cut short their Christmas break and return to work due to county hospitals being busier than expected.
ULHT (United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust) particularly needs help frommore registered nurses and healthcare support workers. S
Staff who usually work at , Grantham, Lincoln County Hospital, and Pilgrim Hospital Boston, are asked to get in contact and go to their operations centres so they can be deployed to appropriate wards.
Chief nurse Tracy Pilcher said: “Even a few hours help would be incredibly helpful for us at the moment,” she said.
“Obviously our A&E departments are very busy and staff that are working have been working over the last few days and are becoming quite tired.”
The problems have been attributed to more patients coming in than predicted, and these people were more ill than usual, meaning they were stopping in hospital for longer.
There are also problems with bed-blocking, where patients are well enough to leave hospital but there are delays in discharging them.
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