Get ready for a hilarious holiday comedy with 'CHRISTMAS BELLES' at City Theatre Austin. When a church Christmas program goes awry, expect plenty of laughs in this southern comedy by Jones Hope Wooten.
Feb 25 2021 Read 4808 Times
Students from Newcastle University continue to volunteer on the frontline during lockdown to support the North East Ambulance Service (NEAS) and one of the region s largest vaccination hubs. After a successful first year, the NEAS First Responder scheme at Newcastle University has recruited new volunteers to help local NHS services in responding to patients dialling 999 in the Tyneside area. The medical students attend the most severe categories of calls and respond to immediate life-threatening emergencies to patients as a resource of North East Ambulance Service.
There are 41 medical students who have been trained to work at ‘The Parks’ a Covid-19 vaccination hub in North Shields to support the vaccine roll-out. Working under the direct supervision of a GP, they have administered over 30,000 vaccines at the centre.
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Helping to vaccinate people against coronavirus doesn’t feel like work, says Camille Edmonds, a senior nurse manager in Hull. “There’s a productive buzz in the air,” she says. “The usual stresses and anxieties aren’t there.”
Edmonds, 49, a nurse for 28 years, works for Hull university teaching hospitals NHS trust, which she feels has been “really organised” in deploying the vaccine. She started inoculating people at the beginning of January.
Ten bays are used with 10 nurses each working five-hour shifts. “It’s a brilliant system,” she says. “There are so many people volunteering, from reception staff to those working in IT. Some even came out of retirement to help. By the second week, we received an email saying they had enough volunteers and that there was now a waiting list.