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Coronavirus round-up: Hospital death toll passes 600 in Devon and Cornwall
The latest coronavirus news and figures as the UK death toll passes 100,000
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More than 600 patients have died from coronavirus in Devon and Cornwall s hospitals since the pandemic began. New figures today confirmed that 606 people have died from Covid-19 at our hospitals.
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Warns of “inexorably” rising numbers of covid-19 inpatients at neighbouring trust
Hospital chiefs in the South West have warned the region will not avoid the extreme pressures felt by other parts of the NHS amid rapidly rising numbers of covid-19 inpatients.
The region was the least affected area of England during the pandemic’s first wave, but the medical director of two acute trusts yesterday predicted a “tidal wave” of covid-19 coming to the West Country.
Adrian Harris, medical director at Royal Devon and Exeter Foundation Trust and Northern Devon Healthcare Trust, said the region faced an “absolute crisis” and individual trusts would be “hanging on by their fingernails”.
Derriford Hospital moves phlebotomy services from Home Park
Bloods will now be taken at the Future Inn hotel on William Prance Road
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Home Park has stopped providing phlebotomy services and blood tests will now be carried out at the Future Inn hotel.