“We cannot be complacent – the drop is slow and numbers could quickly move the other way if we started to ease off. That’s why it’s so important to keep following the rules, as challenging as that is for everyone.
Despite the good news, the number of free critical care beds in Norfolk is still worryingly low, with 21 available as of January 24 – a slight improvement on the 14 available the week before.
Patients in critical care beds in Norfolk reached record highs on January 22 – when 82 patients needed life-saving treatment.
Coronavirus patients continue to make up around a third of all patients at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) in King s Lynn. Meanwhile numbers have dropped at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH) and James Paget University Hospital (JPUH), where virus patients now make up around a quarter of the total.
Violet Highton, pictured in 2019 aged 95. She died in January 2021.
- Credit: Steve Highton
A former Citizens Advice Bureau stalwart and wartime petty officer described as extremely intelligent, hard-working and adventurous has died.
Great-grandmother Violet Highton, 96, from New Buckenham, died at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital on January 14 following an infection not related to coronavirus.
From 1980 until 2011, when she was 86-years-old, she volunteered for Norwich Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) where she started out as as advisor but ended up being a debt counsellor and trainer.
Her efforts were recognised with a Norwich City Council civic award in 2010.
Violet Highton pictured in 2010 with her Norwich City Council civic award for her voluntary work with Norwich CAB. She died in January 2021.
Violet Highton, pictured in 2019 aged 95. She died in January 2021.
- Credit: Steve Highton
A former Citizens Advice Bureau stalwart and wartime petty officer described as extremely intelligent, hard-working and adventurous has died.
Great-grandmother Violet Highton, 96, from New Buckenham, died at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital on January 14 following an infection not related to coronavirus.
From 1980 until 2011, when she was 86-years-old, she volunteered for Norwich Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) where she started out as as advisor but ended up being a debt counsellor and trainer.
Her efforts were recognised with a Norwich City Council civic award in 2010.
Violet Highton pictured in 2010 with her Norwich City Council civic award for her voluntary work with Norwich CAB. She died in January 2021.
Due to rising admissions over Christmas and New Year the intensive care team decided to staff five consultants a day and expand the number of beds.
Dr Easby, 40, said: For us as a team, the most difficult point was a couple of weeks ago when the Norfolk patient numbers were increasing. We were taking in patients from all around the region, everyone in the region was struggling. It was just awful, people were not doing well and patients were very sick. It s only maybe this week we have started to get to the point we are getting a few more people off ventilators.
Mrs Cleveland is one of 11,534 Norfolk patients who had waited a year or more for routine surgeries by November last year, and as the battle to contain the Covid pandemic overwhelms the NHS, waiting times for non-coronavirus treatments are set to get even longer.
Erin Escott, 21 from Loddon, has been waiting since late 2019 for an operation at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH) to remove her gallstones.
She described the pain from daily attacks as excruciating and said her mental health has deteriorated to the point where she doesn’t recognise herself anymore.
Erin Escott says her painful gallstones have affected both her physical and mental health