Hospitals in virus hotspots are ‘coping well’ with surging Covid cases because patients are younger and in less need of critical care, a senior NHS boss has said.
Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers, said hospital leaders are confident vaccinations have broken the link between coronavirus cases, hospital admissions and deaths.
The breakthrough means fewer patients need treatment and those who do are generally younger and less sick than during the second wave, he said.
Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers, said hospital leaders are confident vaccinations have broken the link between cases, hospital admissions and deaths
Even in badly affected towns such as Bolton, it was ‘striking’ that hospital admissions had not risen as they did before, Mr Hopson said, adding that deaths remain low nationwide.
Crowds gather in protests across Greater Manchester to support Palestine
Protests were held in the city centre, Bolton, Bury and Wigan
Crowds gathered at Piccadilly Gardens to support Palestine (Image: Sean Hansford)
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Protesters packed the streets of Greater Manchester on Saturday (May 22) to give their support to Palestine.
Bolton Town Hall steps fenced off AN ‘urgent and wholesale’ replacement of the lighting system at Bolton town hall is set to land the council with an unexpected bill of more than £400,000. It was recently discovered there had been a systematic light fitting failure at the building, which required immediate attention. The urgent need for the work meant normal rules for possible scrutiny of decisions by council members were bypassed. Bolton Council has said that if the work was not completed now there could eventually be a safety risk at the building. An ‘urgent item’ on ‘failure of light fittings’ was put before the then deputy council leader Cllr Martyn Cox at a meeting on April 27.
Professor Paul Salveson is a historian and writer and lives in Bolton. He is visiting professor in ‘Worktown Studies’ at the University of Bolton and author of several books on Lancashire history The Bolton Evening News wrote in April 1977 that “every week the 470 workers turn 6,000 hairy, smelly hides into high-grade leathers for every purpose under the sun. Their products go to the ends of the earth for conversion into shoes, fashion wear, handbags, hats, brief cases, schoolbags.” Within less than five years, Walkers’ Tannery had closed and those workers – my dad amongst them – were redundant. Everyone brought up in Bolton prior to the 1980s will remember it for one thing – the smell. Curing leather was a very noxious business and if you worked in the limeyard – the biggest in the UK after it was modernised during the war - the smell would never leave you.
SERVICE: His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh A MEMORIAL service to honour the life of Prince Philip will be held in Bolton tomorrow. Residents of the town will be able to pay their respects following the death of His Royal Highness, the Duke of Edinburgh. The service will be held at Bolton Parish Church at 6pm and the public will be allowed to attend. The church service will be led by the Vicar of Bolton Rev Canon Dr Chris Bracegirdle and tickets are on a first come first served basis at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/memorial-service-for-the-hrh-duke-of-edinburgh-tickets-150921888431