Hospitals take to Twitter to plead with staff to work

Hospitals throughout the country have become so fraught and over-stretched within A&E departments they have taken to begging off-duty staff to work extra shifts via Twitter.

Staff have been offered bonus rates and been asked to abandon planned holiday leave, according to the Telegraph.

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust appealed to off-duty A&E doctors and nurses on Sunday night via twitter, asking for them to come in to work in order to help ease the pressure.