Limiting driving to essential trips has reduced traffic volumes to 1950s levels, I read in the paper yesterday.
Don't worry about the risk of an accident, it is lower now that at normal times and, feed back from a couple of staff we know at Salisbury District Hospital is that there is no wait at A&E and at times they have nothing to do.
The local Trust has gone as far as saying words to the effect of "please come to A&E if you need to, we don't want you to suffer, thinking you are helping the NHS. You may be making things worse by delaying a visit". The British Heart Foundation echos tis approach.
Many hospitals, outside big cities, having discharged everyone they can, now have many empty beds. Addenbrooks near Cambridge reported yesterday 400 empty beds, out of 1200.
