Inside the new Garden Suite chemotherapy unit at Kidderminster Hospital THE space previously occupied by the Garden Suite chemo unit at Redditch s Alexandra Hospital is now being used to help restore hospital services affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust has refurbished part of Kidderminster Hospital to temporarily house the chemo unit which was moved from Redditch after the coronavirus outbreak last year. The trust said Kidderminster s A block was an ideal location to carry out cancer treatments while the Alex continues to treat people with Covid-19.
The Garden Suite chemo unit moved from the Alex to Kidderminster in the wake of the Covid outbreak last year
HOSPITAL: Worcestershire Royal Hospital HOSPITALS in Worcestershire were caring for 297 Covid patients as of Tuesday this week, new figures show. Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs the Royal hospital in Worcester, was caring for 253 coronavirus patients. NHS England data shows the number of people being treated in hospital for Covid-19 by 8am on January 26 was up from 239 on the same day the previous week. The number of beds at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust occupied by people who tested positive for Covid-19 more than doubled in the last four weeks – 28 days ago, there were 125. Across England there were 32,337 people in hospital with Covid as of January 26, with 3,634 of them in mechanical ventilation beds.
MILITARY: Soldiers will be deployed to hospitals in Worcestershire to help ease pressure; CCG director Mari Gay (bottom right) HOSPITAL bosses have asked for soldiers to be deployed to Worcestershire to help ease pressure due to the high numbers of sick staff due to Covid. The non-medically trained military staff, who continue to be sent to hospitals across the country, would be be arriving to help with porterting and similar jobs. As many as 530 staff at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, which includes Worcestershire Royal Hospital in Worcester, were off sick or absent due to coronavirus. Mari Gay, managing director for the county at Herefordshire and Worcestershire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), said health bosses were looking to bring military personnel to the county s hospitals to ease the significant pressure brought on by staff sickness.
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A DELAY in bin collections at Worcestershire Royal Hospital prompted one whistleblower to raise concerns. After the person contacted the Worcester News to say the bins had not been collected for two days, we asked the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust to explain. Stephen Welch, director of estates and facilities at the trust, said: “Due to the recent spell of snow, we experienced a short delay in the collection of general waste from our stores due to our service partners being temporarily unable to get to the Worcestershire Royal Hospital. This has since been rectified, and we thank all our partners for their continued hard work in keeping our hospitals running smoothly.”