Perhaps our situation with covid is looking up

Barmeyoldbat

Well that’s great news to hear about the Nightingale Hospitals, but the one in our area was dismantled

So will they count as Johnson’s ‘new’ hospitals?

MayBee70

Barmeyoldbat

Well that’s great news to hear about the Nightingale Hospitals, but the one in our area was dismantled

So will they count as Johnson’s ‘new’ hospitals?

No, I think the Exeter Nightingale will be an extra. We are due 11 "new" hospitals here in the south west, though I believe some are refurbishments rather than new builds. Exeter RDE wasn't on the list because it is a relatively new hospital anyway and has just undergone a £19 million refurbishment to A & E.
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Josieann

MayBee70

Barmeyoldbat

Well that’s great news to hear about the Nightingale Hospitals, but the one in our area was dismantled

So will they count as Johnson’s ‘new’ hospitals?

No, I think the Exeter Nightingale will be an extra. We are due 11 "new" hospitals here in the south west, though I believe some are refurbishments rather than new builds. Exeter RDE wasn't on the list because it is a relatively new hospital anyway and has just undergone a £19 million refurbishment to A & E.
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Amazing news, if true! It was admitted last year that only be six brand new hospitals are planned in the whole country. At least one of them was already being planned, funding had been allocated and is just awaiting final sign-off of a building which has been at least ten years in planning.

effalump

You will probably find that a lot of the deaths are those with cancer who were denied treatment over the last two years, or those with comorbidities that have eventually succumbed to being sidelined by the NHS.

You probably won't!

growstuff

Josieann

MayBee70

Barmeyoldbat

Well that’s great news to hear about the Nightingale Hospitals, but the one in our area was dismantled

So will they count as Johnson’s ‘new’ hospitals?

No, I think the Exeter Nightingale will be an extra. We are due 11 "new" hospitals here in the south west, though I believe some are refurbishments rather than new builds. Exeter RDE wasn't on the list because it is a relatively new hospital anyway and has just undergone a £19 million refurbishment to A & E.
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Amazing news, if true! It was admitted last year that only be six brand new hospitals are planned in the whole country. At least one of them was already being planned, funding had been allocated and is just awaiting final sign-off of a building which has been at least ten years in planning.

Is that Whipps? It used to be our local hospital and I believe was built around 1900. So old and workhouse like, it is almost eerie. The new build looks impressive.

Yes, Whipps Cross Hospital is one of the six hospitals in the country earmarked for money by 2025:

fullfact.org/health/six-hospitals-not-forty/

The money for the rebuild was already earmarked, so it's not new money.

I don’t know if this has been said before but many people are taking lateral flow test regularly. Therefore if someone get a positive result on say Monday and then tests positive again on Wednesday they may report both tests . My question is would both results be counted as a new case as the code on each test is different ?

ginny

I don’t know if this has been said before but many people are taking lateral flow test regularly. Therefore if someone get a positive result on say Monday and then tests positive again on Wednesday they may report both tests . My question is would both results be counted as a new case as the code on each test is different ?

My understanding is that re-infections don't count, so if somebody is infected after having been infected six months previously, the second infection isn't counted. I've never had to report a positive test, but if the NHS number is used, I assume the second test result doesn't count. It's more likely that the total number of positive tests has been under-reported.

If Primary Care was fit for purpose at present then they could 'field' off suspected cases at the pass instead of the public stampeding the hospitals in their ignorance of the symptoms.