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Increased Emergency Demand for Yorkshire Coast Hospitals

Hospital Emergency Departments and urgent care centres on the Yorkshire Coast are continuing to see increased demand since the easing of the lockdown restrictions.

Heather McNair is chief nurse for the York and Scarborough NHS Trust:

Large numbers of people are continuing to turn up at hospital emergency departments on the Yorkshire Coast because they cant get appointments with their GP's.

The York and Scarborough NHS trust says it has seen some of it's busiest days ever in the last few weeks.

Scarborough and Whitby MP Robert Goodwill says it's a concern:

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