North Cumbria Integrated Care (NCIC) Chief Nurse, Anna Stabler, has commented on the impact of Covid-19 on NHS staff Staff at a NHS Trust missed thousands of days of work last year due to Covid-19, a study has found. NHS Digital data shows the equivalent of 83,056 full-time staff days were lost due to sickness at North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust between March and December 2020. Around a tenth of these (8,566) were because of Covid-19, with staff worst affected towards the beginning of the pandemic. The figures show that millions of days of work were lost nationally. Deputy chairman of the British Medical Association, Dr David Wrigley, said: We know the NHS went into the pandemic woefully short on staff and these worrying figures highlight how Covid-19 has made a severe workforce shortage even more desperate.
More than two in five staff at the North Cumbria Integrated Care Trust felt ill due to work-related stress as the coronavirus pandemic took hold last year, according to a survey. The annual NHS staff survey has revealed the toll of the Covid-19 crisis on staff at trusts across England, who faced huge pressures as hospital admissions surged. At North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust, 43% of staff who responded to the 2020 survey said they had felt unwell in the past 12 months as a result of work-related stress. Across England as a whole, 44% of NHS staff said they had been unwell due to work-related stress last year, compared to 40% the year before.
HOSPITALS in north Cumbria have confirmed 276 Covid-19 patients deaths since January 1. Though infection rates across Cumbria have fallen, the shocking scale of the tragedy locally is spelled out in the latest Government data, which tracks the mounting human cost of the pandemic. According to NHS England figures, death rates at The Cumberland Infirmary and West Cumberland Hospital in Whitehaven have fallen in the last few weeks - but experts are warning it is too early to relax restrictions. Three Covid-19 patient deaths were reported by the trust involved - North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust - in the last week.
Coronavirus in Cumbria: Shocking figures reveal the pandemic s deadly impact in our county timesandstar.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from timesandstar.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.