How busy is YOUR hospital? Interactive tool reveals trust-by-trust breakdown of Covid patients and ICU occupancy as data shows a FIFTH of NHS sites had NO free critical care beds last week
Some 27 of 140 acute NHS trusts have no space left for patients in critical care units, official figures show
Six were in the North East, which mostly dodged Tier 4, while five were in the South East and the Midlands
Separate data released today revealed NHS waiting lists for routine operations have surged to record levels
It comes amid sustained high admissions of Covid-19 patients to hospitals across the country
Nicola Lewis
Published:
12:16 AM January 13, 2021
Updated:
11:07 AM January 20, 2021
N4 Cutting Hub gave pizzas to Whittington Hospital staff, in collaboration with Pizzeria Pappagone.
- Credit: Lise Gommensen
A scrubs- and mask-making initiative thanked frontline workers at Whittington Hospital by collaborating with a local pizzeria to deliver them 145 pizzas.
N4 Cutting Hub has produced more than 6,000 masks and more than 2,000 scrubs sets since April 2020, when the pandemic took hold in the UK.
Myka Baum, who set up the group, wanted to show more appreciation for workers at her local hospital after becoming disheartened by how she feels the NHS has been less celebrated in the recent period of the pandemic.
Nicola Lewis
Published:
12:16 AM January 13, 2021
Updated:
11:07 AM January 20, 2021
N4 Cutting Hub gave pizzas to Whittington Hospital staff, in collaboration with Pizzeria Pappagone.
- Credit: Lise Gommensen
A scrubs- and mask-making initiative thanked frontline workers at Whittington Hospital by collaborating with a local pizzeria to deliver them 145 pizzas.
N4 Cutting Hub has produced more than 6,000 masks and more than 2,000 scrubs sets since April 2020, when the pandemic took hold in the UK.
Myka Baum, who set up the group, wanted to show more appreciation for workers at her local hospital after becoming disheartened by how she feels the NHS has been less celebrated in the recent period of the pandemic.
Lockdown rules include only leaving home for a small number of essential reasons.
- Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto
The latest figures show parts of Norfolk have a higher coronvairus infection rate than some areas of the capital, with hospital beds filling up fast and staff stretched to breaking point.
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan declared a state of emergency in the capital on Friday, amid warnings that 1 in 30 people are carrying the virus with hospitals about to be overwhelmed.
The pressures that led to the decision were rates of infection and hospital capacity, so we looked at the data for Norfolk to compare.