After almost a week of major incident status for Ashford and St Peter’s hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, the situation has been downgraded to business continuity/internal incident status.
Demand is still high however, despite the improvements.
In a statement the trust said: “This means [stepping down from major incident status] we will continue to mobiles additional people and resources to support the hospital and our patients, for example a number of clinicians who will be providing additional cover over the weekend.
“We continue to work closely with all our colleagues in north west Surrey on a phased recovery programme.”
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