England 1966 World Cup memorabilia ends up in Bath charity shop somersetlive.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from somersetlive.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Minor fall in number of coronavirus patients at Royal United Hospital in Bath
The hospital is seeing patient numbers come down from the peak
A Domestic Assistant working on a ward. (Image: Joel Goodman)
THE LATEST NEWS AND UPDATES ACROSS BATH STRAIGHT TO YOUR INBOX Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later.
SIGN UP
When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice.
Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notice
The number of coronavirus patients inside the Royal United Hospital Bath has fallen again this week.
Military will be used to ease coronavirus pressure at Weston Hospital
Military personnel are to work at several West Country hospitals to support NHS staff during the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic.
The armed forces will support staff working in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire and Devon as Covid-19 cases continue to rise.
A list of some of the hospitals and health care providers in the South West which will receive military support has been released, which includes Weston Hospital. Other hospitals include Bristol Royal Infirmary, Southmead Hospital, Yate Minor Injuries Unit, Clevedon Minor Injuries Unit, South Bristol Urgent Treatment Centre, Royal United Hospital Bath and Exeter Nightingale Hospital.
Doctors may have to decide which severely ill patients to treat based on a lottery if the NHS is overwhelmed this winter under draft Covid rationing plans.
The guidance also advises medics look at patients potential to contribute to society or their likelihood of surviving the treatment as a way to prioritise whose lives should be saved.
The protocol says that for patients who are in similar health and cannot be separated in other ways, a random allocation, such as a lottery, may be used .
The document, published in the Journal for Medical Ethics in November, was drawn up by experts at a major NHS Trust in Bath in an attempt to come up with a system for rationing care in the event there are not enough resources to treat everyone.
Maternity services are facing disruption across the South East because ambulance staff are too busy dealing with spiralling coronavirus hospitalisations.
The East Sussex NHS Trust and Brighton and Sussex NHS Trust have both suspended services for home-births and their stand-alone midwife-led units because they cannot guarantee an ambulance can turn up if there is an issue.
Four other trusts all in Kent, one of the places worst-hit by England s second wave have also paused their home-births service for the same reason.
It comes as hospital chiefs warn hundreds of intensive care patients may have to be moved between regions to take the pressure off the most over-stretched wards.