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NHS staff are saying the service is under strain like never before. Doctors are worried a shortage of beds means patients are being discharged before they are ready or have somewhere suitable to go.

Emails from senior managers at two NHS hospitals reveal a service that is running out of beds, and the despair of those trying to sort it out.

The clinical director at one hospital in Bangor in North Wales said this was 鈥渢he worst start to a day in鈥� 13 years,鈥� and that meant staff 鈥渨ill have to be risky鈥�. The Royal Oldham Hospital鈥檚 Director of Operations said they were facing 鈥渙ne of the worst predicted overnight bed positions that I have ever known in any hospital throughout my career鈥�.

Deborah Cohen reports.