Sad to see that Barnsley area has seen particularly hard hit by the number of people of dying since the 1st December (hospital totals only) Barnsley hospital serves 250,000 people which is a sizeable number, but for comparison Leeds serves roughly 780k people. If you work out that per head of population it's roughly equivalent to Leeds seeing 400+ people dying in the same period. Note: Mid-Yorkshire hospitals serve 550k.
I would have thought that the Barnsley area would have a large number of older people suffering from diseases like COPD which may contribute to the total
I had a lady the other week that turned up for a hospital appointment even though she hadn't had the result of her Covid test. She didn't want to let anybody down bless her. I had to send her home and explain politely that she should have stayed at home and telephoned the appointment centre. She was ever so apologetic. However, this wasn't some doddery old pensioner. It was an intelligent middle class women. That's a big problem because these people use public transport and drink coffee like everybody else. They touch the same handrails and door handles too. It's the public that are making this worse.
Awful numbers for all areas in our region I know some are negative about the idea of testing people who feel healthy but I believe community testing here in Kirklees has really helped, I am glad it's sticking around for now and I hope other local areas get the chance to go for one where they live. It serves here for over 460,000 people..... https://www.nhs.uk/Services/Trusts/Overview/DefaultView.aspx?id=1977
Are we sure this is not all fiction, made up to control the population. I think I saw in on the internet somewhere so it must be right.
I think it's problematic telling people to have a test even if it's just a cough when HR departments are saying if you test negative it counts against you with a sickness panel. If they make it a free hit again I think numbers of cases will drop as people won't feel under pressure to return to work. I also know that the numbers of people in Hospital is on the rise because the patients are being treated more efficiently now.
As of the 5th January the number of beds in Barnsley hospital with Covid patients is roughly 21% of all available beds in the hospital. This is a fall since November where this number reached 37% of all beds. (The actual numbers may be less based on Covid measures, but it's based on the hospital having 400 beds as per here.) The place hit hardest in the country is North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust with a massive 63.1% of beds taken by Covid patients. Barts NHS Trust currently has 674 people in its hospitals with Covid.
A colleague who sent her daughter to school last Monday (as per govt instruction) was properly fuming when in Tuesday morning the school notified her that her 8 yr old had been in contact with a child who’d been sent to school with symptoms and was awaiting a result. WTF goes through these peoples minds?
They're the numbers Ive taken from the NHS England website. Doncaster & Bassetlaw - 143 deaths since the 1st December. The NHS trust serves 420k people.
