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Southend Council bosses are also urging borough families and residents to keep following the rules. Over Christmas from 21 to 31 December 2020, 31 patients were able to go home from hospital with the right ongoing support in place. During those ten days, 1,300 vulnerable people who live in our community were given more than 16,000 hours of care in their own homes by more than 500 home care staff, who are funded by Southend Council. Southend Care also gave specialist care to eight people who were Covid positive and needed care home support when they left hospital. The Council is working very closely with health colleagues to support patients out of hospital and back to their own home as soon as possible. However, the need to get patients home has to be balanced with protecting those they live with, against the spread of Covid, especially the patients who live in care homes where all of the residents are often clinically vulnerable. The Council is constantly reviewing plans
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Easing the strain - Priory House A ward set up to take pressure off Southend Hospital has re-opened and is set run at full capacity by next week. Southend Council is pulling out all the stops to get the ward at Priory House ready to take 13 patients who are able to be discharged from hospital but have yet to test negative for Covid-19. The ward is currently caring for six such patients but with hospitals at breaking point it needs to double its capacity. Speaking as Essex declared a state of emergency, Neil Stock, chair of association of Essex council leaders, said: “[The situation] is caused by a combination of too many people coming into hospital and not being able to get people out quickly enough – as well as issues with staff absence.