Does London REALLY need to be in Tier Three? Only one of the capital s NHS trusts is busier than it was last winter - and just 25 Covid deaths are occurring each day (an EIGHTH of the levels seen in April during the peak of the pandemic)
Of capital s 18 major hospital trusts, only University College London NHS Foundation Trust busier than in 2019
London s NHS hospitals are actually quieter than they were the previous two winters, on average, data shows
Covid deaths and hospital admissions in London are a far cry from the levels seen during the peak of spring
15 December 2020
Over 160,000 volunteers tested in England between 13 November and 3 December as part of a significant COVID-19 study
Prevalence rose in London from 98 per 10,000 people infected in mid-November to 121 per 10,000 infected by early December, the highest prevalence after Yorkshire and the Humber and the North East
Adherence to the toughened tiering system is critical to continue to bring down the varying regional rates of infections
The results from the seventh report of one of the country’s largest studies into COVID-19 infections in England have been published today by Imperial College London and Ipsos MORI. It follows the publication of the interim findings in November.
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Cleaners at Great Ormond St win in-house status Submitted by martin on 5 January, 2021 - 5:55
Author: Chris Reynolds
Hundreds of cleaners outsourced to the multinational contractor OCS at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London will be made NHS employees on 1 August 2021 following a campaign by the workers and their trade union United Voices of the World.
UVW had warned hospital bosses that it would move to a ballot for industrial action and a legal case for institutionalised racism (the cleaners are mostly ethnic-minority).
UVW won a previous victory in April 2020, when Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust gave their 1,200 outsourced staff NHS contracts.
By Claire Read2020-12-14T07:00:00+00:00
An HSJ webinar, run in association with Acumentice, brought together a small panel to consider how the context of a continuing pandemic – and the suspension of elective activity during its first wave – has affected approaches to managing waits. By Claire Read
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Ask Saffron Cordery about the challenges of delivering effective elective care during the pandemic and she starts the story not in March, when the pandemic began to escalate. No, she thinks back weeks, months, even years.
“If you think about the period before [the first] lockdown and before we knew that the pandemic was a thing, elective wait performance was already heading south in terms of where we were as a sector overall.
Appointment of disgraced former Post Office executive at Welsh FA questioned by MP
The appointment of a former Post Office executive, who tried to mislead a judge, in the Football Association of Wales has been questioned by an MP
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The Football Association of Wales’ (FAW) appointment of a former Post Office executive, who tried to mislead a High Court judge in the Horizon IT scandal, has been questioned by a Welsh Labour MP.
According to a source, the full board of the FAW Council will discuss the appointment of Angela Van den Bogerd as head of people following a letter to its CEO from Jack Sargeant, MP for Alyn and Deeside.