Number of flu patients in hospital across the South West by NHS trust View Image

Data has revealed that across the South West, an average of 128 people were in hospital everyday last week for flu.

Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, said “there is a tidal wave of flu tearing through our hospitals” as figures showed an average of 2,660 flu patients were in hospital each day last week, up from 1,717 the previous week, across the whole of England.

Professor Meghana Pandit, NHS national medical director, warned that the “unprecedented wave of super flu is leaving the NHS facing a worst-case scenario for this time of year” and there was no peak in sight.

Dr Vicky Price, president of the Society for Acute Medicine, said the “flu-nami” was hitting the NHS, but this was “a sadly familiar pi

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