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"We are on our knees": Why it's time for some honesty about the NHS’s summer crisis

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Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox As the government heralds ‘Freedom Day’ on July 19, many working within the health system here and elsewhere are nervous.

Not because they are forecasting a 2020-style explosion in Covid admissions - although they are expecting them to rise to an extent, as an inevitable consequence of uncontrolled infections.

The worry relates more to the implication, from government and elsewhere, that anything less than the rocketing trajectory in coronavirus patients seen in November and January means the NHS can cope.

There are growing fears of a ‘disconnect’ between the official messages being relayed to the public and the reality of the NHS on the ground, where in many

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