Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust among best in UK for tackling BAME discrimination, Health Service Journal says
A local NHS trust has been named as one of the best in the country for tackling and cutting discrimination towards its ethnic-minority staff.
Monday, 24th May 2021, 3:48 pm
The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust, which runs Pinderfields, Pontefract and Dewsbury Hospital, has been ranked third on a nationwide list compiled by the Health Service Journal (HSJ).
Mid Yorkshire welcomed the findings, saying it took a zero tolerance approach to discrimination, but insisted there was still much to be done .
The HSJ, a respected healthcare publication, assembled its league table based on feedback from staff surveys carried out across hospital trusts in 2020.
It was heartening and quite a comfort to see just how far Cheshire has improved in the battle against coronavirus. All those months of lockdown, working from home and a monumental effort by the NHS to vaccinate masses of people seem to have finally paid off…for the time being at least. I base this statement on the news that there are just 17 coronavirus patients in the whole of Cheshire, with one at the Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and 16 being cared for by the Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. And at the time the report was published, not one of the 17 patients was in such a bad condition they needed to be ventilated.
Public Health England s latest statistics on Covid-19 case rates in Warrington HERE are the latest figures on coronavirus case rates in Warrington from Public Health England. In the seven days before May 14, the most recent period for which data is available, 24 positive Covid-19 tests were returned in the town. This is a rate of 11.4 infections for every 100,000 residents, the 193rd highest in the country. By comparison, in the week before May 7 there were 22 new cases – or 10.5 per 100,000. During this period, 45 per cent of the 315 local authority areas in England saw a rise in the number of transmissions while 49 per cent saw a fall.
ADMISSIONS at Warrington and Halton hospitals linked to allergies have seen a sharp rise in recent years, new figures reveal. NHS Digital data shows there were around 135 admission episodes with a primary diagnosis of allergies for Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in 2019-20 – the latest full years’ worth of figures. That was up from around 40 in 2015-16, which is the earliest year for which data was available, and around 75 in 2018-19. The exact numbers are not known because the totals for certain patient groups were suppressed to maintain confidentiality. Nationally, around 30,400 admission episodes were recorded, demonstrating a big increase from 20,700 in 2015-16.
CONSULTATION on plans to create a new Health Hub at Runcorn Shopping City has now been launched. Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust says offering these services in a retail environment would make it easier for patient access. Halton residents would no longer have to travel out of borough to receive care, providing greater convenience, and the hub would provide an additional 3,000 outpatients appointments per year, at least, in Halton. The trust also says some services would be expanded to offer a greater range of tests. Audiology and ophthalmology would move just 300 meters from Halton Hospital’s outpatients to Shopping City, while dietetics would move from St Paul’s Health Centre – a distance of 3.5km served by public transport.