I work in a children's hospital - I'm not a medic, I'm office staff.  For about 4 weeks running up to Christmas our A&E department was manic pretty much 24hrs a day.  Number of attendances way above what they are normally are. GPs and 111 service referring parents with sick kids even though an awful  lot of them didn't need to be.

The staff were heroes, some working shifts well over what they normally do. Those guys are just committed to making sure sick kids are looked after, whether it's a cold or something that turns out to be far more serious.

Our A&E is now back to 'normal', it seems to be the ones that deal with adults that are now suffering and we haven't even had a flu outbreak yet.