She explained how the three hospital model being proposed broadly retains the existing services.
“A substantial new build at Watford would bring fantastic opportunities to improve services. In our new facilities we are hoping to have significantly more single bed impatient rooms. We are looking at 75 to 80 per cent of all in-patient accommodation in single rooms.
“St Albans will be our main surgical and cancer care site. It already is the site where we do a lot of planned surgery and we want to develop and enhance that service offer at St Albans. One of the key things we want to do at St Albans is improve and increase the amount of diagnostics provision there to support planned care pathways and a much better coordinated model.
Around 10,000 health and social care staff have been vaccinated at Watford FC’s grounds. The West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust kickstarted its vaccination programme to staff members on January 4, and much of the process was distributed with the help of Watford FC at the Team West Hertfordshire sanctuary. Near mid-January (January 14) over 3,000 jabs were distributed to the trust’s staff members, and now this has expanded to around 10,000 jabs. Amazing effort! Our fab vaccination team continue through sub-zero temperatures! ❄️❤️ https://t.co/oJHhqNMb1Z West Herts Hospitals (@WestHertsNHS) February 8, 2021 Latest figures from NHS data also reveals that nearly-three quarters of people aged 70 and over in Hertfordshire and west Essex have received their first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine.
A patient who has been at Watford General Hospital for more than two months has opened up on how he just wants to go home to his family. Rob Orton was admitted to the hospital with Covid-19 on November 4 and is on the slow road to recovery, but is still being cared for in the Intensive Care Unit. The 48-year-old refuse collector has had a tracheotomy (opening cut into the neck) following weeks on a ventilator. Unable to speak, he communicated with ITV by writing on a whiteboard about how much he wanted to be home with his wife Colleen and sons Daniel and William.
Posting on Facebook, the television star, 69, revealed that his mother Jo, 93, died on Wednesday from the virus. Paying tribute, Grant said she had blazed for nine decades .