Clio Wood s first birth was characterised by a lack of control and inability to influence decisions
When I had my daughter seven years ago, I experienced what is termed “birth trauma”. Coupled with postnatal depression, mild PTSD and other physical rehabilitation issues, this meant my first birth took years to recover from – seven, in fact.
Now that I am pregnant with my second, I’m choosing to have an elective caesarean. There are always good reasons, physically and mentally, for having a C-section, elective or not. So why do we still, deep down, believe it to be the cheat s option?
Oxford University Hospitals Trust was caring for six coronavirus patients in hospital as of Tuesday, figures show. NHS England data reveals the number of people being treated in hospital for Covid-19 by 8am on April 6 was down from ten on the same day the previous week. The number of beds at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust occupied by people who tested positive for Covid-19 decreased by 73 per cent in the last four weeks. However, 28 days ago, there were 22. Across England there were 2,588 people in hospital with Covid as of April 6, with 406 of them in mechanical ventilation beds. The number of Covid-19 patients hospitalised nationally has decreased by 65 per cent in the last four weeks, while the number on mechanical ventilators has decreased by 66 per cent..
This is below the 15 per cent average for all NHS acute trusts across the South East. Across England, 40,670 people are thought to have been infected with Covid-19 in hospital since August – 15 per cent of all inpatients with the disease. Rob Harwood, chairman of the British Medical Association s consultants committee, said: The NHS went into the current pandemic underfunded, understaffed and overstretched, and the knock-on effects – such as limited bed capacity – has unfortunately meant that controlling the spread of Covid-19 within hospitals has been more difficult than necessary. For some time now, the BMA has been calling for the Government to urgently address issues that would go far in ensuring the hospital environment is as safe as possible.
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Numbers of people with coronavirus in Bristol s hospitals falling - but still above 200
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The number of people being treated for coronavirus in Bristol’s hospitals is slowly falling - but there is still higher than 200.
Numbers of covid patients in both Southmead Hospital, the Bristol Royal Infirmary and Weston General Hospital are dropping, and are now at around half the peak of the post-Christmas wave of the pandemic.