Hospital A&E departments under pressure

Hospitals across the country have been struggling to cope after being inundated with patients.

Some have put themselves on various states of alert.

ITV News Anglia has contacted all the major hospitals in our region, and this is their current state of alert:

• Addenbrooke's Hospital: Major Incident
• Peterborough City Hospital: Internal Major Incident

• The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn: Internal Black Alert

• Basildon and Thurrock Hospital: Internal Black Alert

• Norfolk and Norfolk Hospital: Black Alert

• Southend University Hospital: Black Alert

• Milton Keynes Hospital: Black Alert

• West Suffolk Hospital: Black Alert

• Bedford Hospital: Significant Incident

• The Princess Alexandra Hospital, Harlow: Significant Incident

• Colchester Hospital: Red Alert

• Kettering Hospital: Red Alert

• Northampton Hospital: Red Alert

• West Hertfordshire Hospital: Red Alert

• James Paget Hospital: Red Alert

• Ipswich Hospital: Amber Alert

• Luton and Dunstable Hospital: No Alert

• Hinchingbrooke Hospital: No Alert

• Broomfield Hospital: Awaiting response