Virtually every clinical lead in EM I have spoken too, as well as Scottish Board members think that the bed capacity of their patch has been reduced. I can find little data around this, where I have local data it seems to be true. How can this be adequate preparation for winter? 2) Virtually every service I encounter , apart from EM, also says that in some way it is reduced or restricted in some way.

1)There were assaults on Staff in at least 3 Scottish Emergency Departments over the weekend. Didn't take long for the clapping to stop. 2) This is unacceptable and shows a disgusting attitude towards a service which is still taking personal risk to provide a safe service for patients