{"id":341473,"date":"2025-12-11T10:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T10:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/341473\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T10:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T10:24:08","slug":"flu-cases-jump-sharply-in-england-as-nhs-faces-worst-case-scenario-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/341473\/","title":{"rendered":"Flu cases jump sharply in England as NHS faces &#8216;worst case scenario&#8217; &#8211; live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flu patients in hospital up 55% from previous weekpublished at 09:49 GMT<\/p>\n<p>09:49 GMTBreaking<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/c8556895-a77b-47ad-abc2-b10aced05a28.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Nick Triggle<br \/>Health correspondent<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There were an average of 2,660 patients a day in hospital<br \/>\nwith flu in England last week \u2013 a rise of 55% on the week before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">NHS England said there were now enough flu patients to fill<br \/>\nmore than three whole hospital trusts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">NHS chiefs said the total had already increased sharply<br \/>\nsince the week covered by the data, up to last Sunday, with no peak in sight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Projections have suggested there could be between 5,000 and<br \/>\n8,000 hospital cases by the end of this week. The highest ever recorded was<br \/>\n5,400.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flu patients in hospital up 55% from previous weekpublished at 09:49 GMT 09:49 GMTBreaking Nick TriggleHealth correspondent There&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-341473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}