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'Government failing NHS as hospitals face winter crisis' - Your Letters and Albrighton FC lift the Wellington League first division trophy in a 1963 picture from the archive

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By Tania Taylor
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Supporting image for story: 'Government failing NHS as hospitals face winter crisis' - Your Letters and Albrighton FC lift the Wellington League first division trophy in a 1963 picture from the archive
PICTURE FROM THE PAST: Albrighton Football Club players and officials in 1963, who have good reason to look happy on this picture, which shows them with the Wellington League first division trophy. They won the trophy for the first time after a remarkable season in which they did not lose a single match.

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Hospitals under huge pressure

Hospitals are logging the kind of flu surge you expect in a national crisis and disaster drills. Hospital beds taken by patients have exploded to 1,717 a day - more than double last year.

A system already reeling from staffing gaps is now absorbing a 'crash' shock that keeps accelerating.

Fortunately, our nurses have to be qualified to work. Unlike politicians.

With echoes of the Covid disaster not long reported. Doctors preparing a festive strike and government selling the NHS to private American bidders. It appears government has failed us all again.

Every chart, data set and NHS experience informs us that each winter there is a massive increase in the urgent need for hospital care and beds.