By Matt Discombe2021-01-16T06:00:00+00:00
Covid-19 infections likely caught in hospital up by half in a week
Share of total at 15 per cent down from a high of nearly 25 per cent in December
Hospital-acquired covid rates treble in some acute trusts
Covid-19 infections likely to have been caught in hospital have increased by almost half in a week with several trusts seeing significant rises,
HSJ can reveal.
Our analysis of NHS England data shows that 3,813 covid cases in hospital in the week to 10 January were likely to have been hospital acquired.
Probable hospital-acquired covid cases in the latest week rose by 46 per cent on the week before, when 2,610 cases were detected, and by 52 per cent on the total on 20 December.
Bournemouth Town Hall THE inquest of a woman who died of an undiagnosed heart condition just two days after giving birth to a healthy baby girl is taking place at Dorset Coroner s Court this week. New mum Silvia Ivankova, aged 28, died after collapsing at home while on a skype call with her mother. Miss Ivankova, an insurance sales assistant, had given birth to a baby girl at Poole Hospital on December 11, 2018. However, she d been transferred to Poole Hospital from the Royal Bournemouth Hospital (RBH), where her partner, Ben Clark, had taken her after she starting complaining of chest pains and breathing difficulties while shopping at Primark the previous day, December 10, 2018.
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