MORE than 350 people were admitted to Dorset hospitals with Covid-19 in the space of a week, latest figures show. Data released by NHS England shows, between January 18 and January 24, 351 people were admitted to hospital with the virus. University Hospitals Dorset Trust admitted 281 people, including 51 on January 20 and 44 on January 24. At the Dorset County Hospital, 55 people were admitted, including 14 on January 22. Fifteen people were admitted to the Dorset Healthcare Trust with Covid-19, including seven on January 18. And on January 26, there were 537 patients occupying hospital beds with Covid-19 in Dorset. UHD had 378 patients, including 24 needing mechanical ventilation. The Dorset County Hospital had 80 Covid-19 patients, with seven on mechanical ventilation, and 79 people were at the Dorset Healthcare Trust with the virus, none on mechanical ventilation.
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
MORE than 610 people have now died with coronavirus in Dorset hospitals after a further 14 deaths were recorded at the University Hospitals Dorset Trust. Four more people died at UHD’s hospitals with Covid-19 on January 27, five died on January 26, four died on January 25 and one death with Covid-19 was recorded on December 18. It means a total of 497 people have died with Covid-19 at UHD since the start of the pandemic. The total number of coronavirus deaths at the Dorset County Hospital remained at 69, and 50 people have died with the virus under the care of the Dorset healthcare Trust. It means 616 people have now died with coronavirus in the county’s hospitals.
FORTY-FIVE more people have died with coronavirus in Dorset hospitals, latest figures show. The new figure includes deaths which were not recorded in previous days due to a lag. Data released by NHS England shows 34 more people died at the University Hospitals Dorset Trust, taking the trust’s total since the start of the pandemic to 449. The newly recorded deaths came on January 26, when two people died, ten people died on January 25, 13 died on January 24, five died on January 23 and three died on January 22. Six more deaths were also recorded at the Dorset County Hospital, taking the hospital’s total to 69.
Trust has still not hit its peak of covid patients
Patients at University Hospitals Dorset being tranferred 60 miles away to Nightingale in Exeter
A hospital trust which recently accepted critical covid patients from neighbours may shortly have to send them elsewhere, its chief executive has said.
This comes as covid pressures continue to rise across parts of the South and South West, including in Dorset, where hospitals last week began transferring patients to the Nightingale Hospital in Exeter, to free up capacity. University Hospitals Dorset is transferring patients who require oxygen and non-invasive ventilation.
Chief executive of Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust Alex Whitfield told