snapshot, the pressure you are under to administer the flu vaccine and the booster, you say it is a manpower issue, can you hire other people to help you? is it the building you are working in, what could change which means you could get to your patients quicker? iiit could change which means you could get to your patients quicker?- get to your patients quicker? in our local centre. get to your patients quicker? in our local centre, we get to your patients quicker? in our local centre, we have get to your patients quicker? in our local centre, we have a get to your patients quicker? in our local centre, we have a wonderful l local centre, we have a wonderful workforce of retired doctors and nurses who come back to help us out. and if there were more of those, it would really, really help us. we also have a space problem. we are using a big health centre but there are three practices working together, because we are working with the pfizer vaccine, we have to keep it on the site
september, we are seeing a slightly different age distribution with increases in the older rather than the younger populations, and that helps to explain why the steep reduction in case numbers has not been mirrored by an equally steep decline in hospital admissions. covid related hospital occupancy which is the number of patients in hospital with covid at any given time is slower than it was three weeks ago and 917 today compared to 998 three weeks ago. but it has increased slightly again in the past week. hospitaladmissions increased slightly again in the past week. hospital admissions also remain high and there are more than 600 people with covid still being admitted each weekjust now and admissions to intensive care have also increased so what this all means is that nhs staff are dealing with significant numbers of patients alongside other patient care and also preparing for a wider winter pressure and dealing with the backlog built up over the pandemic.
highest level for nearly eight months. combined with the usual winter pressure such as flu calls for government action may be difficult to ignore. the governments latest coronavirus figures show that there are 44,985 new infections recorded in the latest 24 hour period which means an average, there 47,618 new cases reported per day in the last week. there were 8238 people in the hospital with covid 19 as of thursday. under 35 deaths were reported and as a people who died within 20 days of covid 19 tests. and on the past week, garage 33 deaths announced every day. court documents suggest that the actor alec baldwin was told his gun was safe before he fatally shot a crew the subs with them. he is questioned
to stay away from hospitals tonight. surgeons warn cancelled operations due to winter pressures are becoming the norm. the winter pressure | on the nhs is biting. but now, with the nhs been battered by three covid waves, with emergency departments and the ambulance service recording their worst ever performance figures, and with waiting lists reaching levels hard to imagine just two years ago, this could well turn out to be the worst of all winters. the boss says the pressure is as intense as he s ever experienced. i think that this is the hottest that we have seen the overall system. he is especially worried that a shortage of carers is putting even more pressure on hospitals. the care system s resilience is a concern to us at the moment. it feels at its most fragile, even with some of the support we have made available. so the welsh government s winter pressures plan describes how £42 million will be spent supporting social care in an effort to get patients out of hospitals more qui
figures ever amid growing concerns on staff pressures ahead of a difficult winter. on staff pressures ahead figures show nearly a quarter of a million people have been waiting more than nine months for treatment, up from about 25,000 at the start of the pandemic. it comes as the welsh government unveils its winter pressures plan. 0wain clarke reports. the other warnings we have heard over many years way before covid even became part of our vocabulary. our top story, patients are told to stay away from hospitals tonight. surgeons warn cancelled operations due to winter pressures are becoming the norm. the winter pressure | on the nhs is biting. but now, with the nhs been battered by three covid waves, with emergency departments and the ambulance service recording their worst ever performance figures, and with waiting lists reaching levels hard to imagine just two years ago, this could well turn out to be the worst of all winters. the boss says the pressure is as intense as he s ever exp