@sirfredfredgeorge
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*@boys3*, so it is busier, but it's not covid busy (covid admissions aren't high enough to make much of a dent in a million a month.)
So is it extra demand due to delayed illness? (seem unlikely we're still low on deaths)
Extra demand due to lack of GP access?
Extra demand due to riskier behaviour/out of practice when doing various activities?
sirfred I'm pretty much in line with your points. On the third one I wonder also if with less people travelling abroad is there an increase in people slipping over in the Lake District; falling off a narrow boat on the Norfolk Broads, when all they have been previously used to is either walking from Med hotel / villa to the the pool, go to the bar / restaurant and repeat all for the duration of their stay? I jest only in part, are there simply more people than normal in July doing stuff they normally wouldn't do? Added to that, from where I am at least, there is a lot of home improvement going on, and a lot of pressure on getting tradespeople so are enthusiastic DIYer going some way beyond there (undoubtedly limited) level of competence with their array of power tools?
On travel flip side far fewer overseas tourists here as well. But perhaps they are all just generally more sensible when they did come in past years. Although I've always wondered how many get hit by bikes in central Cambridge every year. :) a tongue in cheek smile obviously, I would not actively wish visitors to Cambridge to get knocked over by a bike
Presumably there's a whole load of published stats, although probably not the July detail, about the breakdown on 999 call reasons.