Northamptonshire sees 1000 positive Covid tests in one day for the first time

Northamptonshire sees 1000 positive Covid tests in one day for the first time Northampton, Corby, Kettering, Wellingborough and South Northants all see huge rises.

Northamptonshire saw more than 1,000 positive Covid-19 tests in a single day for the first time.

Tuesday's Government bulletin revealed 1,034 confirmed swabs in the latest 24-hour reporting period — over 300 more than the previous record 713 set just a day earlier. Northampton Chronicle and Echo

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• Lockdown No3: What you CAN do in Northamptonshire during the next six weeks Northampton Chronicle and Echo
• Practical advice for coping with a January lockdown - according to a psychologist Northampton Chronicle and Echo
• St Andrew’s Hospital unveils memorial garden for staff and patients who lost their lives during the coronavirus pandemic in Northampton Northampton Chronicle and Echo
• Corby records England’s highest jump in positive Covid case rates Northamptonshire Telegraph
• England’s national lockdown may stay in place until March - what we know so far Northamptonshire Telegraph
• All arrivals to the UK could soon need a negative Covid test - what we know so far Northamptonshire Telegraph

Year of unparalleled pressure leaves staff exhausted and on the brink

Year of unparalleled pressure leaves staff exhausted and on the brink Thousands of doctors have revealed the impact that working during the pandemic has had on their mental health and wellbeing, in a major BMA survey that exposes how a year of unparalleled pressure has pushed an understaffed and exhausted workforce to the brink.

New figures from the latest BMA tracker survey of doctors in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, show that almost 60 per cent (58%) of doctors are now suffering from some form of anxiety or depression, with 46 per cent saying their condition had worsened since the start of pandemic.

The IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities: a new year’s message

The IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities: a new year’s message This report examines the impact of the pandemic on educational, economic, social and health inequalities in the UK. It outlines data and evidence on the groups that have been most heavily impacted by widening inequalities and Covid-19. Institute for Fiscal Studies

Violence prevention standard

Violence prevention standard We have published the new national violence prevention and reduction standard, which complements existing health and safety legislation. Employers (including NHS employers) have a general duty of care to protect staff from threats and violence at work. NHS England

Guidance: Digital and data-driven health and care technology

Guidance: Digital and data-driven health and care technology The guide contains a set of principles that set out what we expect from suppliers and users of data-driven technologies.

The aim is to make it easier for our suppliers to understand what we need from them, and to help health and care providers choose safe, effective, secure technology to improve the services they provide. Department of Health and Social Care

Guidance: Safety of COVID-19 vaccines when given in pregnancy

Guidance: Safety of COVID-19 vaccines when given in pregnancy Guidance for health professionals to share with pregnant women immunised with COVID-19 vaccines. Public Health England 

1.3 million in UK have had their Covid vaccine

1.3 million in UK have had their Covid vaccine Some 1.3 million people in the UK have now received their first dose of a Covid vaccine, says the government.

In England, that includes nearly a quarter of the most elderly, vulnerable patients.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it meant that within a two to three weeks they should have a "significant degree of immunity" to the virus. BBC News

See also:

• Analysis: Can lockdown stop the new coronavirus variant? BBC News
• Covid-19: UK daily coronavirus cases top 60,000 for first time BBC News
• Professor Chris Whitty defends vaccine rollout decision BBC News
• Doctors and nurses demand higher quality face masks in letter to ministers The Daily Mail
• Covid UK: Daily deaths DOUBLE to 830 week-on-week with 60,916 cases The Daily Mail
• Schools have been to blame for three times more Covid outbreaks than hospitals since October The Daily Mail
• Surge in ward cases 'could fill 12 hospitals' The Daily Mail
• Has Britain got ANY chance of vaccinating 13m by mid-February? The Daily Mail
• Coronavirus UK: Government data suggests super strain cases falling The Daily Mail
• Urgent cancer operations face being cancelled, warns Royal College chief The Daily Telegraph
• One in 50 infected with Covid-19 in England, says Chris Whitty – video The Guardian
• What obstacles stand in the way of UK's Covid vaccine rollout? The Guardian
• UK Covid jab rollout may not hit target pace for two weeks, say officials The Guardian
• Covid vaccine: unease among doctors as follow-up doses of UK jab delayed The Guardian
• Leak of November lockdown plan linked to 'surge in new infections' The Guardian
• No data to support delay of second Covid vaccine dose, say Pfizer and BioNTech The Independent

Analysis: More honesty about the crisis facing the NHS is urgently needed

Analysis: More honesty about the crisis facing the NHS is urgently needed In the past two weeks, hospitals in London and across the southeast have had to declare major incidents, cancel operations and transfer patients to NHS trusts hundreds of miles away.

Some have struggled to deliver the volume of oxygen needed by patients sick with the coronavirus who are being cared for on makeshift wards set up in any spare room the hospitals can find. The Independent

See also:

• ‘We are not coping’: Paramedics warn of deaths as hundreds of emergencies wait hours for help The Independent

Mother fears son could die as Brexit stops medical cannabis supply

Mother fears son could die as Brexit stops medical cannabis supply Government gives two weeks notice that access to epilepsy treatment for nine-year-old Alfie Dingley will end

The mother of a nine-year-old boy with a rare and severe form of epilepsy has told how she fears her son could die after the government announced his supply of a life-changing cannabis medicine from the Netherlands would stop because of Brexit. The Guardian