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The new vaccine hub in Wembley is one of several new vaccination sites opened recently. Credit: PA More than three quarters of a million people in London have received a Covid-19 vaccine as the capital starts to catch up to the rest of England. A total of 834,418 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine have now been given out in London, including 777,531 first doses and 56,887 second doses. This week will also see the opening of four new vaccination centres, nine local community pharmacy sites and two hospital hubs to assist with the vaccine rollout in London. Sir David Sloman, regional director for the NHS in London, said: “More than three quarters of a million people in the capital have now received their first Covid vaccine, surpassing the number of Londoners who have been infected by the virus and giving significant protection to those most at risk. ....
NHS hospitals draft in SECRETARIES to help on wards and bosses plan to use Army helicopters to airlift Covid patients to mainland from Isle of Wight as officials warn crisis won t peak until FEBRUARY - but Matt Hancock says there is NO oxygen shortage Hospitals in the capital are in need of immediate additional staff , NHS boss said Secretaries, students and care workers could be drafted in to help on wards They will be used to do paperwork, carry equipment and feed patients High sickness and self-isolation rates and busy hospitals are pressuring NHS ....
People with advanced cancer have had their urgent surgery cancelled at a leading London hospital trust that is treating the largest number of Covid patients in the NHS. Patients who were due to undergo an operation to treat their disease at Barts Health NHS trust have been told the pressures the resurgent Covid-19 is putting hospitals under was to blame. The procedures involved are known in the NHS as “red flag” cancer cases and are classed by. ....
Health bosses last night insisted urgent cancer operations in London will not be scrapped to ease the strain on hospitals inundated with coronavirus patients. Sir David Sloman, NHS regional director for the capital, stressed that surgery is continuing despite the increased demand on hospitals from Covid-19. His pledge came after it was claimed that potentially life-saving cancer operations would be cancelled because hospital capacity was creaking under the pressure. The Observer reported that urgent cancer treatment was set to be cancelled, meaning sufferers could face crucial operations being postponed for months. It sparked fears that priority two procedures, where patients have to be operated on within four weeks to prevent their condition to markedly deteriorate, would be cancelled. ....