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A British hospital is the first in the world to use a 'sponge on a string' to detect oesophageal cancer in a Covid-safe way. It allows health workers to collect cell samples from the food pipe without the need for an endoscopy, biopsy or sedation. Endoscopies, which involve passing a thin tube containing a camera and light into the body, were suspended during the pandemic because they can cause the virus to be sprayed into the air. But University College London Hospital continued to assess patients by switching to the pioneering Cytosponge. It will now be the hospital's usual standard of care...

Doctors fear that staff shortages, the need to tackle the big backlog of surgery that has built up, and existing strain on lung and heart services will limit the care that the NHS can provide. The boss of the hospital that set up the NHS’s first specialist clinic for long Covid admitted that it was struggling to give patients the speedy and high-quality help they needed. The head of the Royal College of GPs voiced concern that sufferers were facing long waits to get seen. Prof Helen Stokes-Lampard, the chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, which professionally represents the UK’...

2021-01-03 14:05:46 GMT2021-01-03 22:05:46(Beijing Time) Xinhua English LONDON, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) -- University College hospital, one of London's biggest hospitals, is battling to accommodate the fast-rising number of COVID-19 patients across the capital, warning that it is "on track to be almost COVID-only" as intensive care patients soar, local media reported. The hospital is scrambling to convert operating theaters and stroke wards into intensive care units, the London-based The Guardian newspaper reported. Critical care matron Elaine Thorpe told the newspaper that she and her colleag...

news Top London hospital preparing for "COVID-only care" as intensive care patients soar Gu Zhenqiu © Provided by N.C.N. Limited  Photo taken on Dec. 29, 2020 shows a man walking along the Waterloo Bridge backdropped by the Houses of Parliament in London, Britain. (Xinhua/Han Yan) "The biggest thing for me is I'm dreadfully worried about my team. Nurses are having to spread themselves thinly," said Elaine Thorpe, critical care matron at the University College hospital. "We're going back to the levels where we were before, where it was one ICU nurse looking after what will b...

Hospital staff are told to prepare to ventilate patients manually if oxygen runs low as NHS chiefs warn of 'nail-biting' scenario Nearly 23,000 beds in England were occupied by coronavirus patients on New Year's Eve – higher than April Staff at one major London hospital told to prepare to manually ventilate patients using an 'ambu bag'  NHS England data shows critical care demand was last week outstripping extra beds added for Covid crisis In London, three quarters of ICU wards were 100% full or almost full last week as coronavirus cases surged Nationwide, there were an average 743 extra I...