Monday 6 April 2020

Sunday brings news of five more Covid-19 deaths at Kettering General Hospital

Sunday brings news of five more Covid-19 deaths at Kettering General Hospital The grim death tally of coronavirus patients who have died at KGH has risen by five in a single day.

The total number of reported Covid-19 deaths at the Rothwell Road hospital is now 18.

Three of the patients' deaths announced this afternoon (Sunday, April 5) took place on Thursday (April 2) and two of them took place on Friday (April 3). Northampton Chronicle and Echo

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Public satisfaction with the NHS rose sharply in 2019 – why?

Public satisfaction with the NHS rose sharply in 2019 – why? If the past few years have taught us anything about public opinion, it is that second guessing it is a fool’s errand, and so it proved this year with the 2019 British Social Attitudes survey. After falling for the previous two years, public satisfaction with the NHS rose significantly, from 53 per cent in 2018 to 60 per cent in 2019. It is a result that very few people working in health policy would have predicted at the time. The King's Fund

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Policy paper: Coronavirus (COVID-19): scaling up testing programmes

Policy paper: Coronavirus (COVID-19): scaling up testing programmes How the government intends to scale up testing programmes to provide a test to anyone who needs one. Department of Health and Social Care

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Coronavirus: When will we know the UK lockdown is working?

Coronavirus: When will we know the UK lockdown is working? It's two weeks since Boris Johnson announced the UK's lockdown, and there are signs the rate of infection is starting to slow, though not deaths.

While the number of people dying in hospital with coronavirus is doubling every few days, the figures for confirmed cases and hospitalisations are slowing down.

The daily death total will follow suit, scientists say. But they warn we could still see record highs in the coming days. BBC News

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