The Covid-19 vaccine is delivered to North Devon Leisure Centre in Barnstaple
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The first people in North Devon began receiving their covid-19 vaccinations today (Tuesday, December 29) at two Barnstaple locations.
A mass vaccination centre has opened at North Devon Leisure Centre, while vulnerable patients attending North Devon District Hospital will also be offered the vaccine.
North Devon Leisure Centre in Barnstaple set out ready to receive the first patients to be given the Covid-19 vaccine
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The hospital will see patients aged 80 and above who are already attending hospital as an outpatient among those offered the vaccine and any appointments not used for priority groups will be used for healthcare workers who are at highest risk of serious illness from Covid.
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12:07 PM December 22, 2020
The naughty elf Alfie with security team members Nathan Shaddick and Jamie Lewis and staff at North Devon District Hospital.
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An urgent appeal has gone out to help naughty Alfie the elf raise money for hospital charity Over and Above and get back into Santa’s good books.
Alfie the elf reads his last warning from Santa - can you help get him home in time?
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The errant elf has been warned he is on a final warning and will only be picked up by Santa on Christmas Eve from his bolt hole at North Devon District Hospital if he can raise at least £500 for the charity.
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image captionThe North Devon District Hospital said it has made improvements to its maternity service since 2017
A baby who died shortly after birth might have survived if he had been delivered one or two minutes sooner, an inquest has concluded.
Freddie Barnett died at North Devon District Hospital in Barnstaple after a difficult birth in June 2017.
The coroner at the inquest in Exeter concluded his mother was not given full information over her emergency birthing options.
The hospital trust said it had taken positive steps towards improving.
Mum Charlotte Barnett was in advanced labour when Freddie was unexpectedly found to be in a breech position.
A coroner has said that a newborn baby may have survived if a consultant had not left the room and the child had been born a few minutes earlier.
The hospital - which has been linked to 20 maternity deaths or serious harm cases - accepted there were failings in their care and offered their sincere condolences for the devastating loss of the baby.
Freddie Barnett s delivery at the hospital in Barnstaple, North Devon, in June 2017 was difficult because of his low heart rate and poor condition.
Despite the best efforts of midwives, Freddie died 30 minutes after his birth.
Today his mother Charlotte Barnett, 30, gave an inquest a harrowing account of Freddie dying minutes after he was delivered.
Patients with coronavirus in Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust hospitals has risen sixfold in a week. Picture of West Cornwall Hospital: Jaggery/Wikimedia Commons The number of patients in hospital in Cornwall with coronavirus is almost six times higher than a week ago. NHS England figures show that as of Tuesday morning (December 15), there were 29 patients at the Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust who had tested positive for Covid-19. This was up from five a week earlier, on December 8. This is understood to be as a result of an outbreak in one of the sites, rather than from the wider community. Following a request from the Packet for a response to this, a Trust spokesperson said: West Cornwall Hospital has put new admissions on hold.