All Coronavirus articles – Page 42
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NewsRevealed: £35m government plan for covid mortuaries
The government’s expected spend on mortuary capacity for people who have died with covid-19 has increased more than 50 per cent since September.
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NewsLong-awaited A&E reconfiguration runs into covid troubles
A long-anticipated public consultation in the South East could be further delayed because of the covid pandemic.
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NewsRetail boss takes over as Test and Trace COO
NHS Test and Trace has appointed a former supermarket director as its new chief operating officer.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Jab, jab, jab
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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NewsEngland set to see covid inpatients fall to pre-third wave level by 8 March
Deaths of covid positive hospital patients appear to have passed their third wave peak.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Giving Hancock his due
Andy Cowper shares his insights on the hot topics of the past week
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NewsExclusive: Urgent children’s ops routinely cancelled due to covid pressure
Dozens and potentially hundreds of urgent operations for children have been cancelled during the third wave of the covid pandemic, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsTrust accidentally offered covid vaccine to all ‘frontline key workers’
The NHS in Kent is pleading for people outside priority groups not to book covid vaccinations, after it published information indicating they were available to all ‘frontline key workers’.
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News31 Jan update: London and south east set to see low levels of covid hospital admissions by end of Feb
Admissions of covid positive patients in London and the south east are on course to fall to a managable level by the end of February.
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NewsRevealed: Large areas left with just a handful of hospital beds for non-covid patients
Several areas of England have been left with just a handful of general hospital beds available for non-covid patients in recent days, under the combined pressures of coronavirus and winter, HSJ analysis reveals.
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NewsOver 450 people a day caught covid in hospitals during January
Record numbers of covid-19 infections which are likely to have taken place after admission to hospital are being reported in January, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ InteractiveImproving digital communication with patients
How can digital communication with patients help transform outpatient services?
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HSJ PartnersIntroducing respiratory support units in the NHS will transform respiratory care
Professor Jon Bennett shares his insights on respiratory support units and their potential to revolutionise acute respiratory care for patients
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News‘Catastrophic’ threat to cancer performance at England’s third largest hospital trust
Cancer services at a large hospital trust have been at ‘catastrophic’ risk of being overwhelmed, after two of its hospital sites had to suspend life-saving cancer surgeries in the last month due to covid-19.
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HSJ PartnersThe need for a unified approach to managing elective patients during the pandemic
Philip Purdy discusses the key factors for success in ongoing management of elective care patients during the pandemic
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PodcastHSJ podcast: When ‘just in time’ does not work
“Resilience requires buffer and buffer can look wasteful until the moment that it isn’t,” Simon Stevens told MPs at a committee hearing in Parliament this week. We discuss how the pandemic made the NHS’ approach to running everything to optimum, just-in-time efficiency fell apart.
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NewsLondon continues to lag on covid vaccine delivery while east catches up
London continues to lag behind in vaccinating its 80-and-over population for covid-19, while the east of England, which was previously behind, has substantially improved its coverage.
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NewsLocal government: Vaccine data so far too limited to track inequalities
Local public health officials have said they are still not getting detailed enough data to track any inequalities in uptake of the covid vaccine, seven weeks into the national immunisation drive.
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NewsExclusive: Fewer black and Filipino NHS staff vaccinated amid ‘hesitancy’ concern
The largest hospital trust in England has reported substantially lower covid vaccine uptake among its black African, black Caribbean and Filipino staff so far, citing ‘vaccine hesitancy’.
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NewsHospital hosts others’ surgeons so cancer ops can go ahead
A specialist trust has freed up 29 theatre sessions a week so cancer surgery from nearby providers can continue during the covid pandemic.