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Services like ambulance, accident and emergency and recover those elective planned care backlogs, then as we recover, we need to get back to delivering the key ambitions in the long—term plan. the uk health security agency says 15 children under the age of 15 have now died from invasive strep a illness since september. thousands of people on the lowest incomes will receive a cold weather payment as temperatures plunge below zero. the industry regulator ofwat has criticised several water compan...

And i think a very good emerging plan to deal with these care backlogs just before christmas. we were quite close to announcing it, but as you might expect, given the needs of the current omicron wave, that has had to be put on hold. i think we will need to go back around to identify what changes we need to make, given what is happening over these three months. what we know is we will need to do about three or four things long—term, so at the staffing issue, but we also know we will need to gr...

To the local population. were going to see influxes of people to certain holiday destinations, and while that doesnt change the official population figures, it means that there are a lot more people within an area. and a lot more people in an area means theres going to be much more chance of covid and much more chance of transmission. indoor social mixing was cited as a factor in the infection spike in lincoln, with a surge in cases linked to a nightclub, though numbers have since fallen back. t...

To hand over patients. weve got a combination of some rising numbers of covid cases, i but thats set alongside the fact |that people are trying to go fullj pelt to recover the care backlogs. weve also got lots people _ who are seeking urgent and emergency care at the same time as staff are off on leave and also, - weve had large numbers of staff self—isolating. i with pop—up vaccination centres, local health chiefs in the south west are urging people to get theirjabs and do regular lateral f...

Some others were further north in england. thats in terms of cases relative to the local population. were going to see influxes of people to certain holiday destinations, and while that doesnt change the official population figures, it means that there are a lot more people within an area. and a lot more people in an area means theres going to be much more chance of covid and much more chance of transmission. indoor social mixing was cited as a factor in an infection spike in lincoln, with a sur...

Recover the care backlogs and we have a very, very busy urgent and emergency care and its very striking about how many people say they saw record numbers of people in their emergency departments injune their emergency departments in june and their emergency departments injune and then we have about 10,000 beds fewer than we normally have so weve lost about 10% capacity due to infection control and on top of this we have the problem that because community infection rates of covid are rising we ha...

13 covid patients there, but the hospital is dealing with a backlog in cases and a busy bank holiday weekend, so people are being told only to call 999 in an emergency. we are only to call 999 in an emergency. - are expecting to receive about 3000 calls across the south—west, a considerable amount of the resources that we have available to us. some arts of that we have available to us. some parts of the — that we have available to us. some parts of the country, _ that we have available to us...

Moment. these big care backlogs that we are trying to get through as quickly as possible and we are tackling the most complex cases to start and it means those patients need to have overnight stays and, because they are difficult cases. the second is we think there are significant numbers of people who have put off coming into hospital and actually have now reached the stage where they must come in and get treatment, but because they have left it so long, it means that the treatment required wil...

You concerned that this could exacerbate the covid situation? what exacerbate the covid situation? what we know is that _ exacerbate the covid situation? what we know is that trusts _ exacerbate the covid situation? unfit we know is that trusts who exacerbate the covid situation? wuat we know is that trusts who are in holiday areas tell us that in the summer, they do tend to get a significant spike of demand and what they are saying to us is that they are already very busy for the reasons ive e...