By Annabelle Collins2020-12-10T13:00:00+00:00
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The health service has had to react quickly to the approval of the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine, and within just a few days around 50 vaccine hubs have been mobilised and first patients received their dose.
When speaking to people involved in the logistics in regional areas, there was frustration last week around the frequent change in guidance from the centre (one person describing it as chaos ) but there was also a real sense of optimism and a keenness to get started and do a good job.
· Induction Zesty (leading provider of patient portals to NHS Hospitals in the UK): o Strategic collaboration with Cerner to resell Induction Zesty patient portal platform to Cerner customers in UK and Ireland o Platform go live at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
1 o C ollaboration with Apple, Cerner and Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Trust to enable Health Records on iPhone, a first of type NHS innovation for patients o S elected for NHSX Spark Dynamic Purchasing System to support organisations procure remote monitoring solutions · Induction Switch (number one healthcare collaboration app in the UK) o Accepted on to NHSX Clinical Communications Framework to help NHS Trusts phase out pagers and procure communication services
Third of patients at Lincolnshire hospitals caught COVID-19 during treatment
| Updated: 12:13, 10 December 2020
Nearly a third of patients in Lincolnshireâs hospitals acquired coronavirus while being treated, new data has revealed.
The Telegraph has reported that more than 10,000 people nationally caught the virus while in hospital for other illnesses between August 1 and November 29.
At United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust, of 762 coronavirus cases being treated, 225 of them were caught while in hospitals â 29.5% of patients.
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The figures put ULHT with the seventh highest percentage during that time period.
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals Trust saw 88 of its 606 cases caught inside the hospital â just 14.5% of patients.