Liverpool’s biggest hospitals are only 10 per cent closer to capacity than normal for October, official data has revealed. The city’s NHS critical care beds are usually 85 per cent full at this time of year, with 51 out of 60 beds occupied across three hospitals, according to NHS England data from the past six … Read more
Hospitals across England are cancelling routine operations to make way for a surge in coronavirus patients. University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust said it was temporarily pausing non-critical planned surgery at Derriford Hospital, although day case procedures are still going ahead. Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust chief executive Steve Warburton told staff in a memo … Read more
NHS hospitals in Blackpool are treating up to 65 per cent as many patients as they were at the peak of the outbreak in April, statistics show. In Newcastle and Liverpool, admission rates are nudging closer numbers not seen for six months as the second wave of Covid-19 rips through the North of England. Cases … Read more
HHS threatens to cut off funding for US hospitals if they do not start reporting data on COVID-19 patients within 14 weeks after hundreds fail to regularly share stats with the White House HHS is threatening to cut off of Medicare and Medicaid funding for hospitals that do not report data on coronavirus and influenza … Read more
The experimental coronavirus drug being given to Donald Trump is to be rolled out to 30 or 40 UK hospitals this week as it is deemed ‘very potent’ by UK scientists. Oxford University professor Peter Horby said UK patients began receiving REGN-COV2, made by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, last weekend as part of Oxford University’s national Recovery trial. … Read more
A further 28 people have died from coronavirus in Britain, preliminary figures show. The figure – ten more than last week – brings the UK’s total death toll during the pandemic to 42,345. The number is set to be much higher when the all settings figures – which include deaths in care homes and the wider … Read more
Hospitals are still forcing mothers to go through labour without a partner, claims MP inundated with ‘utterly heartbreaking’ stories of traumatic births and miscarriages endured alone Alicia Kearns was told ‘repeatedly’ about 16 trusts still not following guidance The government and NHS guidance let partners attend appointments and labour Women who had traumatic experiences without … Read more
Britain today recorded another 52 hospital deaths as the number of fatalities inside wards more than doubled in a week, preliminary figures show. Of these, 42 new deaths were reported in England, with a further four fatalities in Scotland, five in Wales and one in Northern Ireland. Close to half of England’s hospital deaths were … Read more
Britain today recorded another 51 hospital deaths as the number of fatalities inside wards more than doubled in a week, preliminary figures show. Of these, 41 new deaths were reported in England, with a further four fatalities in Scotland, five in Wales and one in Northern Ireland. Close to half of England’s hospital deaths were … Read more
Six projects already funded: Princess Alexandra Hospital – Harlow (East of England) – A new integrated, high tech healthcare campus to replace the aging Princess Alexandra Hospital. Watford General Hospital (East of England) – Rebuilding Watford General, including women & children’s services. Whipps Cross University Hospital – North East London (London) – A new hospital … Read more