Read more: Inside Royal Bournemouth Hospital's emergency department The team also manages around 600 beds in A&E, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Last Christmas, they were 20 beds too short.

I am a frontline nurse at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital, one of the two main hospitals of the recently founded University Hospitals Dorset NHS Trust (UHD). We are in a perilous situation and so ...