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Everyone to take measures to reduce the spread of covid during the christmas period as part of a "let's stay safe this festive season" campaign. to talk about this and winter pressures on the nhs i'm joined by gp, dr ellie cannon. doctor cannon, thank you for your time today. let's pick up on the subject of staff illness. we were looking at staff absences due to a covid in acute hospital trust. how much is affecting gp practices? well, to give you the experience for my own gp practice, we have three health care professionals currently isolating with positive pcr tests. thankfully, they are all...

Infections they picked up a couple of weeks ago and that seems likely to continue with the other winter pressures for at least a couple more weeks, so i don't think anybody in government right now is wanting to call this as a definite turning point in this pandemic, in terms of the impact of omicron. our top story this evening. novak djokovic says he still wants to compete in the australian open after a judge frees him from detention. still to come — from victoria sponge to coronation chicken to — what? the competition to come up with a platinum pudding to celebrate the queen's jubilee. an...

Across the region our numbers of covid inpatients are almost as high as they were in previous waves. now, we're also dealing with our usual winter pressures and the need to catch up with all that elective work that we wanted to do in previous years, so we've never felt the pressure so much. keep an eye on it, press on it. the latest data shows more than 40,000 nhs hospital staff in england — around 5% — were absent because of covid sickness or isolation last week. four patients waiting. and as more staff fall sick, it�*s needed everyone to get involved. we�*ve got support from across t...

The last winter before the pandemic hit. as you can see, in the most recent week 23% of patients who were brought to a&e in an ambulance faced a wait of over 30 minutes outside a&e, two years ago the same week it was 18%. that is because covid brings with it some very unique challenges. as reported, staff absences are rising, we are seeing double the normal number of absences we would expect to see. secondly, the share numbers coming into hospital. you do expect at this time of year about 1000 admissions a day for all type of respiratory infections, but we are seeing double that for covid alon...

Fact, borisjohnson wasn't playing down reports that the isolation period for positive cases could be cut from seven days to five. but of course, none of that helps the nhs in the next few weeks, with predictions of continued extreme pressure based on covid numbers, staff absences and all the normal winter pressures.— winter pressures. hugh pym, our health editor. _ let's take a look at some of today's other news. officials in new york have promised support for all those affected by the apartment—block fire yesterday. at least 17 people died in the twin parks complex fire, including eight c...