Submitting. Imagine that you believed that staff had not done enough to protect them. It doesn t bear thinking about, does it?
While the problem is hardly exclusive to Preston and Chorley, with hospital hotspots up and down the country highlighted in a report two months ago by safety investigators, around 29.5 per cent of their Covid cases were caught on the wards from August 1 to November 29, NHS England stats showed, making the trust one of the worst in the country.
Ms Partington, the trust s chief executive, said a special board meeting was held last week to discuss the problem - and said bosses talked about how difficult it is to get the right balance .