NHS hospitals across Lancashire record 16 more Covid deaths on New Year s Day Another 16 people have lost their lives due to the coronavirus at hospitals across Lancashire. New data published on New Year s Day showed that in the last 24 hours the East Lancashire Hospital Trust’s death toll rose by six to 644. In Blackpool Teaching Hospitals, four more people died with Covid-19, taking the total there to 553, while four more deaths were registered at facilities managed by the Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, meaning since the start of the pandemic, 514 people have died with the virus. No Covid-realted deaths were registered in Southport and Ormskirk Hospitals Trust but two more were recorded in Morecambe s hospitals.
On Wednesday, the East Lancashire Hospital Trust’s death toll rose by 32 to 630. It is the largest daily increase of covid-19 related deaths seen since the second wave began. Of those 32 deaths, which occurred in Blackburn and Burnley’s hospitals, 11 tragically took place on Christmas Eve, Five on Christmas Day and 4 on Boxing Day. Those numbers could rise further still as there is often a delay in reporting deaths. Across Lancashire as a while, 54 new coronavirus-related deaths were reported. A total of 494 people who tested positive for coronavirus have died in hospital in England, bringing the total number of confirmed deaths reported in hospitals to 49,719, NHS England said on Wednesday.
Former homeless man finds self-worth as NHS key worker
Former homeless man finds self-worth as NHS key worker
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A man who found himself homeless at the age of 18 says finding work through a charity that works with young people has helped him turn his life around.
Thomas Pemberton, from Blackburn, said he struggled with his mental health and felt like he was at a dead end but it all turned round the day he visited the Prince s Trust.
Now 22, he has found work in the laundry department at the East Lancashire Hospital Trust and has been named as a finalist in the Homesense Young Achiever of the Year Award.
A YOUNG man from Blackburn who turned his life around from homelessness, alcohol and drug abuse to become an NHS key worker has been shortlisted for a national award. Thomas Pemberton, 22, says that for much of his early life he had been heading down the wrong path, having become homeless at 18 due to a breakdown in his relationships at home before turning to drugs and alcohol. However, Thomas realised something had to change and was fortunate that the Prince’s Trust charity was there to help him pull himself back from the brink and work towards securing a job as a key worker in East Lancashire Hospital Trust’s laundry department.