Mel Pickup started as a trainee nurse on the wards, now she is running Bradford’s hospitals during the most challenging of times. Catherine Scott reports.
A 51-YEAR-OLD who was told she had to lose at least seven stone in order to receive surgery for a serious spinal condition is celebrating after surpassing two thirds of the life-changing target. Glenys Parry, from Valley, suffered from chronic back pain in the summer of 2019 when she decided to visit her doctor, however it suddenly worsened over the following days. She was sent to Ysbyty Gwynedd for a number of tests and scans she was told she had spinal stenosis and three crushed vertebrae Glenys had to stay in hospital for five days so that doctors could get her pain under control with a cocktail of strong pain medication, before being referred to a specialist at the Walton Centre in Liverpool the following month.
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Government said there had been further 54,990 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus and 454 deaths in the UK
Trusts in London and the south-East are preparing to transfer critically-ill Covid patients to south-west trusts
Patients in the east of England will be moved to hospitals in the Midlands under emergency plans
Health officials have warned that people as young as 30 will die from Covid and are not immune to virus
More than 50,000 new coronavirus cases have been recorded for the sixth day in a row and another 454 deaths today as health officials warn that people as young as 30 will die from Covid .
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