Liverpool’s NHS trust claims its intensive care units are only 80% full and quieter than usual

Intensive care units at Liverpool’s biggest NHS trust are no busier than normal for this time of year, it emerged today. Councillor Paul Brant sparked fears yesterday after claiming the city’s critical-care units were already 95 per cent full and ‘filling up very fast’ amid a spike in Covid-19 cases. But Liverpool University Hospitals NHS … Read more

Liverpool’s NHS trust claims its intensive care units are only 80% full and quieter than usual

Intensive care units at Liverpool’s biggest NHS trust are no busier than normal for this time of year, it emerged today. Councillor Paul Brant sparked fears yesterday after claiming the city’s critical-care units were already 95 per cent full and ‘filling up very fast’ amid a spike in Covid-19 cases. But Liverpool University Hospitals NHS … Read more

Coronavirus intensive care units are at breaking point as wards fill up

A rare glimpse inside the coronavirus frontline at NHS hospitals has revealed intensive care units at breaking point as wards fill up. Boris Johnson on Monday warned that the number of coronavirus cases in the UK has ‘quadrupled in the last three weeks’ with today’s daily case total standing at 13,972 – up 11 per cent on … Read more

Coronavirus intensive care units are at breaking point as wards fill up

A rare glimpse inside the coronavirus frontline at NHS hospitals has revealed intensive care units at breaking point as wards fill up. Boris Johnson on Monday warned that the number of coronavirus cases in the UK has ‘quadrupled in the last three weeks’ with today’s daily case total standing at 13,972 – up 11 per cent on … Read more

Survival rates for Covid-19 patients in UK intensive care units have risen by 10%

Ten per cent more of Britain’s sickest coronavirus patients are surviving than at the start of the pandemic. Analysis of NHS records shows that 44 per cent of intensive care admissions were dying of the virus when the pandemic first started to spiral out of control in March. The Intensive Care National Audit and Research … Read more

Health workers in US coronavirus units NINE TIMES more at risk

Healthcare workers treating coronavirus patients face a much higher risk than their colleagues, but a hospital’s ventilation system may protect them, two new studies reveal. More than 5.4 percent of physicians, residents, nurses and other clinicians from coronavirus units had positive test results as did 0.6 percent from non-coronavirus wings, researchers found in one report. … Read more

Intensive care units are running low on EIGHT key drugs as doctors are forced to use alternatives

Doctors are prescribing medicines they haven’t used for 20 years and others that may cause heart attacks as hospitals run low on eight key drugs. Sedative drugs used to treat patients with the worst coronavirus symptoms in intensive care have been included on a list of drugs banned for exportation in an effort to ensure … Read more

Intensive care units are running low on EIGHT key drugs as doctors are forced to use alternatives

Doctors are prescribing medicines they haven’t used for 20 years and others that may cause heart attacks as hospitals run low on eight key drugs. Sedative drugs used to treat patients with the worst coronavirus symptoms in intensive care have been included on a list of drugs banned for exportation in an effort to ensure … Read more

Coronavirus unit’s cleaning contract given to firm underpaying staff at NHS hospital

Cleaning contract for emergency coronavirus field hospital at London’s ExCel Centre is handed to private firm accused of not paying staff Outsourced cleaning firm ISS have received the contract at the coronovirus unit The firm has been accused of not paying staff at University Hospital Lewisham  Union GMB said the private firm took over the … Read more