A CUMBRIAN nurse has died with coronavirus. The announcement made by NHS North Cumbria Clinical Commissioning Group said that Chris Buckingham, a nurse in the Continuing Health Care Team, had passed away with the virus. Mr Buckingham had joined the CCG in March last year and was well known in the health and social care community. He had worked at A&E at the Cumberland Infirmary, Keswick Community Hospital and Scarborough Hospitals after a nursing career that started in the Royal Army Medical Corps. A statement released by the CCG said: “It is with great sadness we pay tribute to our friend and colleague Chris Buckingham who has passed away with covid.”
A second NHS frontline worker in north Cumbria has died after contracting coronavirus. Tributes have been paid to Chris Buckingham, a nurse in the Continuing Health Care Team, who has been described by his peers as a cheerful, hard-working and kind man . He had joined North Cumbria Clinical Commissioning Group in March last year and was well-known in the health and social care community. The news of his death comes only a day after it was announced that Linda Parkinson, a health care assistant at the Cumberland Infirmary, had also passed away with Covid-19. A nursing leader has spoken of his incredible sadness at losing two members of the profession.
They died on Thursday and Friday and their families have been informed. Their deaths bring the total that have died at the Trust s hospitals, including York and Scarborough Hospitals since the pandemic began to 457. They are among 710 more deaths announced by NHS England this afternoon. The patients were aged between 25 and 101. Thirty three of the deceased had no known underlying health conditions and one, in Northumbria, died on May 27, 2020. The majority died in the last four days. Seventy of the patients died in the NHS s North East and Yorkshire region.
The entrance to a Covid19 ward. Peter Byrne/PA Wire. Another patient has died after a positive Covid-19 test at York Teaching Hospitals Trust. The death, reported yesterday, brings the number who have died at York and Scarborough Hospitals since the pandemic began to 374. The patient died before yesterday and their family have been informed. The NHS in England reported 420 deaths in the 24 hours ended at 4pm yesterday. All occurred after the patient had had a positive Covid-19 test. In the UK as a whole, 613 more people have died following positive Covid-19 tests, the Government announced this afternoon. There were 53,285 new positive tests.