One in EIGHT NHS hospitals didn t have any spare intensive care beds last week, official figures show as units still caring for 3,600 Covid patients
NHS figures published today reveal 18 out of 140 major trusts were at 100% occupancy in their ICUs last week
Also show that ICUs are more than 70 per cent busier than they have been at any time over the past five years
There are still more than 3,600 critically-ill Covid suffers in English hospitals out of 5,400 total ICU
patients
At least 222 frontline health and care workers have been identified after dying with coronavirus.
Through tributes from loved ones and confirmation through sources such as local NHS trusts and other authorities, the PA news agency has confirmed the names of health and social care workers who have died after contracting Covid-19 since March 11 2020.
This chronological list contains people who were working in roles shortly before their deaths where they were likely to come into contact with patients.
The figure is likely to be lower than the true number of workers who have died, as the names of some victims will not yet be in the public domain.
Whiston Hospital (Picture: Steve Samosa! A FURTHER 23 people who tested positive for Covid-19 have died at Whiston Hospital, the highest total recorded in a single day on record. The grim figure comes as staff continue to battle the third wave of coronavirus patients, with 294 people spread across seven Covid wards as of this morning. Covid-related admissions have skyrocketed at the hospital in the past three weeks, following surging infection rates across the Liverpool City Region. St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has had to double its intensive care capacity to deal with the relentless wave of Covid patients.
Residents and staff at Sherdley Court in Rainhill EVERY care home resident in St Helens has now received their first Covid jab, as the virus continues its assault on the sector. Completion of the first wave of vaccinations for some of the borough’s most vulnerable residents comes as the NHS revealed it is due to cut vaccine supplies to the North West by around a third in February. St Helens’ care homes have been devastated by Covid-19 over the past year, and the virus has started to tighten its grip once again on the sector. Sherdley Court in Rainhill has been particularly impacted during the course of the pandemic, seeing a number of Covid cases and deaths.
Wigan couple among the first to receive jab at new mass vaccination centre
The NHS facility opened its doors at the Totally Wicked Rugby League Stadium in St Helens last week
09:01, 26 JAN 2021
George, 80, and Kathleen Huxley, 81, from Winstanley in Wigan went to St Helens mass vaccination centre last week to get their Covid vaccination (Image: St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust)
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