COVID-19 patients are being admitted to hospital every 30 seconds, the NHS England chief executive said today as a union warned that ambulance services were “collapsing.” 

The NHS has never been in a more precarious position with hospitals and staff under “extreme pressure,” Sir Simon Stevens has said. 

Speaking to the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show, he said: “Since Christmas Day we’ve seen another 15,000 increase in the inpatients in hospitals across England, that’s the equivalent of filling 30 hospitals full of coronavirus patients.