Vulnerable older people left for days at home after falls and children waiting hours to be seen with suspected Scarlet fever and chronic illnesses paint a grim picture of an NHS struggling to cope.
But this year's could well be, NHS figures warn, the worst in its history.
That's around a third to a half of all excess deaths in English hospitals, although NHS England say they don't recognise these figures, and that the data needs further analysis. At the Great Western Hospital in Swindon, it was reported that a patient had to wait 99 hours for a bed. The hospital's chief medical officer, in a leaked message to staff warned that the situation was unlike anything"we have seen previously in our clinical careers".
But opinion polls show the public think the government is handling the issue badly - 82% compared to 11% who think they are handling it well, in a YouGov survey just after Christmas - a steep decline. But there is broad agreement that one part of the system that is clearly wanting is discharges to social care.
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