She was taken into a paediatric ward and given an intravenuous drip, but could not stay at the Royal [the Royal Worcestershire Hospital] because it had no intensive care children's ward. Staff began ringing around the hospitals nearest the couple's Worcester home but found units in Bristol, Oxford, Stoke-on-Trent, Birmingham and Nottingham were all full.

Four hours after...an intensive care paediatric bed was found at Guy's Hospital in London and an air amublance flew her south. The couple followed by road but when they arrived staff told them Georgia had been transferred to St Thomas' Hospital, half an hour away....

Mr Byan said the couple had no complaints with their daughter's medical care, but said it was 'disgusting' that she had to travel so far.

A spokesman for the Worcestershire Royal Hospital said: 'There is a specialist children's hospital in nearby Birmingham - it is just unfortunate it was full at the time.'

From the Daily Mail, today.

Note the use of the word 'unfortunate'. It would, one supposes, also have been 'unfortunate' if Georgia had died as a result of the absence of an intensive care bed. But of course this was not an act of God, it was a direct result of a system running too close to capacity. And that is what we still have in British hospitals run by the NHS.