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HOSPITALS across Northumberland and North Tyneside are set to continue with current pandemic safety measures for the foreseeable future to help protect everyone from infections. The safety measures introduced nationally have helped not only protect staff, patients and visitors over the past year, but enabled Northumbria Healthcare to continue providing many non-urgent services that would otherwise have been postponed. All staff, visitors and outpatients at the trust’s ten hospitals are currently required to wear face masks, socially distance and wash their hands before entering the si...

Patients in Northumberland have been reassured that hospitals are able to continue function as normal after a meeting of the board of the Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. The meeting, which took place today, (May 27), was designed to show how the Trust plans to recover following the Covid-19 pandemic. The Trust’s chief executive Sir James Mackey also said the number of current positive cases of Covid-19 as well as the number of hospitalisations both remain low across the region despite fears in recent days of the Indian variant of the disease spreading at a fast rate. As...

WHILE Covid restrictions may be easing, support for health and care staff in the region is continuing in the face of persisting pressures from the pandemic. At Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, which runs hospitals and community services in Northumberland and North Tyneside, a wide range of initiatives from tokens of gratitude to specialised psychological support have been provided for staff members, building on the comprehensive health and wellbeing package already in place. Sir James Mackey, the trust’s chief executive, said: “It has been very obvious to us for many yea...

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