Worcester’s first mass coronavirus vaccination centre is now open, giving its first jabs to people today. St Peter’s Baptist Church in Eden Close got up and running on Monday February 1, after being earmarked as a potential site for vaccinations last November. Frontline health and social care workers as well as the most vulnerable patient groups are being vaccinated this week. David McDowell, operations manager for the site at St Peter’s Baptist Church, said: “This vaccination centre will further increase our local capacity to deliver Covid-19 vaccines, building upon the brilliant work of our GP-led teams, and those at the newly-opened Artrix in Bromsgrove. These have been instrumental in helping us to introduce the vaccine in Herefordshire and Worcestershire so far, and we look forward to doing our part in driving this programme forward.
MORE than 1,500 coronavirus patients have been discharged from Worcestershire Hospitals. A video made by Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust shows staff clapping Covid patients as they re reunited with family after being cared for in county hospitals. The video was posted by the trust on social media to mark the milestone, alongside a post, which said: We ve now discharged 1,500 coronavirus patients back home after care with us. That s 1,500 families reunited. Thousands of hours of care needed. And thousands of our staff all working to put patients first. Stay at home. Protect the NHS. Help us save more lives. Worcestershire residents took to social media to share their support for hospital staff.
Here are the biggest stories from court this week. 1. A mum has admitted sending a threatening message but denied attacking a man’s car or fighting. Tanika Attwood from Worcester is now banned from a city street as part of her bail conditions and pleaded guilty to the offence at Worcester Crown Court. The 20-year-old, now living in Avon Road, Kidderminster, sent the threatening communication between November 19 and December 5 last year. However, the mother denied sending another similar communication to a different complainant between the same dates, criminal damage to a Seat Leon car on December 4 last year and affray, also alleged to have taken place on December 4 last year.
MORE than 1,500 coronavirus patients have been discharged from the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. A video on the Trust s Facebook page shows NHS staff clapping Covid patients as they re reunited with family after being cared for in county hospitals. Alongside the video, the post said: We ve now discharged 1,500 coronavirus patients back home after care with us. That s 1,500 families reunited. Thousands of hours of care needed. And thousands of our staff all working to put patients first. Stay at home. Protect the NHS. Help us save more lives.
PICTURES show what the new temporary chemotherapy unit at Kidderminster Hospital looks like inside. Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust has refurbished Kidderminster s A Block, located in a separate building next to the hospital, to temporarily house the Garden Suite which was moved over from Redditch after the coronavirus outbreak last year.
Inside the new Garden Suite chemotherapy unit at Kidderminster Hospital The trust said A block was an ideal location to carry out cancer treatments while the Alex continues to treat people with Covid-19. Matthew Hopkins, chief Executive of Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, said: “During the coronavirus pandemic, our staff have been working incredibly hard to ensure that all patients who need urgent care – not just those with coronavirus – have received it.