On patients, Healthcare Workers and the wider nhs. The hearings will also focus on issues such as the Diagnosis And Treatment of patients with long covid, protective equipment in hospitals, and the policy of shielding. More than 30,000 people in the uk have shared their personal stories from the pandemic 7 as part of a report called every story matters, which will be published today. At the worst point, i didnt want to live any longer. My lungs were white,. Id got covid pneumonia. Every single household across the country lived through covid in a different way. Everything in you has just drained, gone. The first person i met, mandy, was a community midwife, when reports showed a new virus emerged. Like everybody in Health Care, we were really struggling, trying to get equipment was absolutely horrendous. Mandy still finds it hard to breathe. Even after our short walk. She spent three weeks in hospital after Catching Covid at work at the height of the pandemic. A bit breathless. Coming
A COUNCIL is urging residents to be on “alert” for rogue builders after an elderly woman paid £20,000 for botched roof repairs. One elderly resident, who responded to a flier through the door, paid £20,000 for roof repairs, which failed to stop the roof leaking. Now Brighton and Hove City Council is warning people about the fraudsters and encouraging residents to deal with reputable builders to ensure they don’t get ripped off. Nationally, trading standards services estimate that unscrupulous traders have cost homeowners more than £200 million for poor quality or unnecessary building work over the course of the pandemic. Councillor Lizzie Deane, chairman of the licensing committee, said the city’s trading standards team received “around 40” complaints last year.