Nottingham A&E regularly exceeds intended capacity by more than 150 patients a day

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By Erin Dean and Daniel Pye

A Nottingham hospital trust has declared a critical incident after regularly receiving 150 patients a day more at A&E than the department is designed to hold.

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) said the emergency department (ED) at Queen’s Medical Centre is designed for 350 patients but has regularly been seeing 500 – and on one day this month had more than 550.