(Joseph Varkey) Philomina Cherian was a staff nurse and “incredibly caring friend and colleague” on the Acute Assessment Unit at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. Read the full story here. She died on April 30 due to Covid-19, aged 63.
The full list: – Augustine Obaro, GP Dr Obaro, 63, died on January 1 after years of service working as a GP at Addison Road Medical Practice in Walthamstow, London. A father of four, Dr Obaro moved to the UK in 1999 from Nigeria and Waltham Forest Clinical Commissioning Group said he will be “sadly missed”. – Bridget Palmer, nurse Bridget Palmer, a staff nurse at Clitheroe Community Hospital, died on December 29 after contracting coronavirus, a spokesman for East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (ELHT) said.
Police patrol hospital on frontline of Covid-19 battle as staff targeted by youths
Officers are working with security staff at Whiston Hospital to deal with trouble linked to gathering youths
Police on patrol at Whiston Hospital amid concerns about staff being harassed by groups of youths . Image: Knowsley Police Facebook Page
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At least 211 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.
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.
The Covid battle continues for St Helens Helens and Knowsley NHS Trust “THE Covid time bomb has well and truly exploded at Whiston this weekend.” That was the email sent to Ann Marr, chief executive of St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals Trust at 4.45am on March 30. The hospital trust’s chief executive recently shared the powerful message with its partners, as staff fought off the dreaded second wave. “If you can imagine, we were all watching on television, first of all what was happening in Italy and then what was happening in London, and seeing particularly how the intensive care units were becoming overwhelmed really quickly,” Ms Marr said.
January Just days after the World Health Organisation reported that there was a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China, which we now know were caused by Covid-19, NHS bosses locally revealed growing pressures on A&E. This came as the NHS experienced its worst waiting times on record. It was revealed that 14,903 people attended Whiston Hospital’s A&E department in December 2019, a 57 per cent rise on the previous year (9,514). Whiston Hospital, which is managed by St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, treated 70.9 per cent of patients who attended in December within four hours, against a target of 95 per cent.