Second patient to get the COVID jab at University Hospital Coventry - would you believe it....William Shakespeare from Warwickshire
Hugh Pym
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Hugh Pym
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BBC News Health Editor covering all aspects of health (UK and Global). Politics and economics of the NHS. Thoughts from staff and patients always welcome.
- Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance both say they would wear masks in crowded indoor spaces
- SAGE adviser Prof John Edmunds told a science media briefing 8k new infections a day (as calculated by ONS) was “a very high incidence” level - “many of us would prefer to see incidence down to lower levels before we relax measures - lifting the lockdown is a political decision”
- Since asking the question at Downing St press conf, five companies offering PPE have emailed me saying they haven’t had any luck getting responses from officials - will now pass them on as invited to by Gavin Williamson - though wondering who to....
- Prof Mark Woolhouse tells MPs there was not a single virus outbreak linked to crowded U.K. beaches last summer
- Worth noting the 122,300 total for virus tests yesterday included home test kits counted when they were dispatched
- Letter by BMA to Chris Whitty seen by BBC calls for gap between Pfizer vaccine doses to be reduced from 12 weeks to 6. BMA claims UK strategy looks isolated internationally - also concerns over whether 12 week delay might not allow second doses of the Pfizer to be guaranteed
- Wes Streeting : have spoken over the phone with the BMA junior doctors committee - I can announce that talks to end their industrial action will begin next week. We promised during the campaign that we would begin negotiations as a matter of urgency, and that is what we are doing
- NHS England have said there are now more COVID patients in hospitals in England that at previous peak in April - 20,426 as of today.
- Interesting and sad to report that the 7 day rolling average for COVID 19 deaths has moved up a little.
- Inside the new Nightingale Hospital in London’s Excel centre - created from standing start a week ago
- NHS Confederation has called for immediate implementation of Plan B measures in England - including widespread mask wearing and more working from home: “to keep people well and avoid the NHS from becoming overwhelmed this winter.”
- Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England acknowledges there was a change of policy on virus testing in March partly because there was not enough capacity. Dr Jenny Harries told the Commons Health Select Committee that “if we had unlimited capacity we would have done differently”.
- 1) The Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England Dr Thomas Waite has told the BBC that a recent increase in COVID hospital admissions in England is a "wake-up call" heading into autumn. There was a 47% increase over the week leading up to Sept 26th compared to the previous week.
