02 August 2021 02 Aug 2021

Paediatric A&Es are reporting that they have had the busiest couple of months on record, with one doctor saying ‘We are effectively running a winter-level emergency department response in the summertime’. Some evidence suggests parents are attending A&E unnecessarily when their child has a mild fever. One theory is that this is happening because those with young children born during the pandemic haven't experienced mild illness in their child before and are anxious.