More than 500 people with Covid died at Stevenage s Lister Hospital since start of pandemic
On Wednesday (May 5) a meeting of the Trust board took a more detailed look at the 414 Covid-19 deaths that had occurred at the hospital before January 31.
Lister Hospital
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More than 500 people with Covid-19 have died in the Lister Hospital, since the start of the pandemic.
Deborah Price, Local Democracy Reporter
Published:
2:00 PM May 7, 2021
Updated:
2:34 PM May 7, 2021
Michael Chilvers, medical director at the East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
- Credit: East and North Herts NHS Trust
Additional operating theatres are being opened up at Lister Hospital, as the backlog of patients in need of treatment continues to grow.
Three of the hospital s operating theatres have had to remain closed in recent months, while medical staff were redeployed to care for patients with COVID-19.
However from May 1 all of the hospital s operating theatres have been back up and running, as part of the recovery .
Lister Hospital in Stevenage
Deborah Price, Local Democracy Reporter
Published:
2:00 PM May 7, 2021
Updated:
2:34 PM May 7, 2021
Michael Chilvers, medical director at the East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
- Credit: East and North Herts NHS Trust
Additional operating theatres are being opened up at Lister Hospital, as the backlog of patients in need of treatment continues to grow.
Three of the hospital s operating theatres have had to remain closed in recent months, while medical staff were redeployed to care for patients with COVID-19.
However from May 1 all of the hospital s operating theatres have been back up and running, as part of the recovery .
Lister Hospital in Stevenage
Deborah Price, Local democracy reporter
Published:
11:00 AM May 7, 2021
Updated:
11:10 AM May 7, 2021
More than 500 COVID deaths have been registered at Lister Hospital in Stevenage since the start of the pandemic
- Credit: Archant
More than 500 people with COVID-19 have died at Stevenage s Lister Hospital since the start of the pandemic, according to the latest data from East and North Herts NHS Trust.
As of May 5, the number of COVID-19 in-patient deaths was 509.
On Wednesday, a meeting of the trust board took a more detailed look at the 414 COVID-19 deaths that had occurred at the hospital before January 31.
A report to the board indicated that that 179 of those deaths had occurred before November 12 last year, but that the majority had occurred later - suggesting that there had been far more deaths in the second wave, with 51 deaths reported in a single week (ending January 24).