Health leaders have joined together to urge the public to do their bit after a third wave of infections brought a challenge on a scale that we haven’t seen before . The first week in January was Cumbria’s worst week for new Covid-19 infections with 3,499 across the county, which has brought extraordinary pressure on health and care services that has never been experienced before. As well as a tripling of people needing hospital treatment for coronavirus in the last three weeks, the very high level of infection in the community is also having an impact on staffing in all sectors due to the number needing to self-isolate.
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The Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) has announced an investment of £7.5 million to support digital shift scheduling in England’s NHS.
It is allocating the money among 38 trusts as part of a £26 million programme to get all clinical staff on e-rostering systems by the end of this year.
The size of the allocations ranges from a minimum of £62,000 to the Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust to medical rostering for doctors, to a high of £618,000 to the North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Found Trust for a community workforce deployment system for nurses and allied health professionals.