Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorLos Angeles County Director of Public Health Barbara Ferrer reported the county currently has 2,232 patients hospitalized due to the coronavirus. The previous high was 2,216, set just the day before.
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East Ayrshire during the pandemic.
There were 76 people released from hospital into care homes in the area between March 10 and May 19.Fewer than a half of those (31) got tests.Kilmarnock West and Crosshouse Conservative councillor Tom Cook said: “People should have been tested.“There was a rush to free up beds for those who needed them.“I think it would have been advantageous for everyone to be tested before they went to care homes to protect residents and staff.”Tragically, there have been 34
.Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorLos Angeles County Director of Public Health Barbara Ferrer reported the county currently has 2,232 patients hospitalized due to the coronavirus. The previous high was 2,216, set just the day before.
hereRachel Hind owns two care homes in Trafford - Faversham House and Brookfield Nursing Home.The homes have remained coronavirus-free throughout the crisis. Rachel has vowed to ban visits to the home regardless of whether Prime Minister Boris Johnson decides to allow them or not.She says they will stay in a self-imposed lockdown until 'at least the end of the year'.
Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser: “A breakdown of community and staff representation – 51 per cent public and 49 per cent staff, with proportions for each geographical locality or staff group – has been agreed in conjunction with the Consultation Institute and approved by the NHS Lanarkshire baord. “Both the public proportions, which reflect usage of the current hospital, and the staff proportions are set out in the table published on the Monklands Replacement Project webpage.
hereBut Stockport council has now joined 12 other north west authorities, in formally supporting and UNISON’s Care Workers vs COVID-19 Campaign.Councillors have unanimously backed a Labour motion calling for action to address the ‘serious public health risk’ to care workers who - according to the Office for National Statistics - are twice as likely to die from coronavirus than their NHS counterparts.Stockport council has been awarded £3.1m from the government’s Infection Control Fund, to help
coronavirus patient who has returned home after a 100-day battle and weeks in an induced coma with just 10 per cent chance of survival has expressed his sincerere gratitude to the NHS staff who saved his life. Paul Hodgskin, 64, went into hospital at the end of March and at his lowest point the odds were truly stacked against him.He was finally discharged on Saturday after the lengthy stay and allowed home to Shifnal, near Telford in Shropshire.“I’m just so thankful,” he said.
of Wigan, was given antibiotics following a GP appointment and his health started to improve. His family said he returned to hospital for a scan at the end of March where doctors expressed their concerns at the results. However, he was told there would be no follow-up appointments for three months due to the coronavirus outbreak. After receiving no information about the scan results, and with no follow-up appointment booked, Rhobious’ health started to deteriorate. His family said they asked to
Karol G has been diagnosed with COVID-19 coronavirus, according to multiple reports.
Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan and his son Abhishek Bachchan have both tested positive for coronavirus and they’re both being treated in the hospital.
East Ayrshire Council’s free nappy uplift service has officially been axed across the region.
Care leaders have branded Boris Johnson’s comments a “real slap in the face” after he suggested “too many” care homes did not properly follow procedures during the coronavirus pandemic.But Downing Street has declined to apologise, reiterating that care homes have done “a brilliant job”.The Prime Minister’s remarks came after he was asked what he made of NHS chief executive Sir Simon Stevens’ desire to see plans to adequately fund the adult social care sector within a year.“One of the things the
hereNo 10 has since said Johnson's comments were misunderstood and refused to apologise.But for care staff, residents and relatives listening, it seemed as if Mr Johnson had forgotten some key points of fact reported by the Manchester Evening News in April; the widespread reports at the start of the pandemic of patients being released from hospital straight into care homes without testing, severe PPE shortages, a lack of clear guidance until it was too late for many residents, and delays in a
care homes have been branded “weak” and “unsatisfactory” during a pandemic that has killed thousands of residents.Inspectors found some homes were not clean and raised “significant concerns” on PPE and infection prevention.In one case in Crieff, people did not get access to enough fluids or to nurses when they needed help.Labour MSP Monica Lennon said: “These inspection reports confirm that all is not well behind the closed doors of Scotland’s care homes.“Weak and unsatisfactory standards that
East Ayrshire.
A total of 59 patients discharged from hospital to North Ayrshire care homes were not tested for Covid-19 during the pandemic.Between March 10 and May 19 fewer than a third - 26 out of 85 people - who were sent from wards to nursing homes got the virus tests.So far in Ayrshire there have been 132 Covid-19 related deaths in care homes - latest figures show.Of those 47 took place in North Ayrshire.Tragically 22 residents have died of suspected or confirmed coronavirus at the Fullarton Care Home in