Second Sainsbury's warehouse in Northampton hit by Covid-19 outbreak

Second Sainsbury's warehouse in Northampton hit by Covid-19 outbreak Sainsbury's declined to give the specific number of confirmed cases, but it is believed three per cent of the 450-plus employees have tested positive at the site. Northampton Chronicle and Echo 

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• Nearly a third of Covid patients return to hospital within 5 months - new study explained Northamptonshire Telegraph
• Epidemiology of post-COVID syndrome following hospitalisation with coronavirus: a retrospective cohort study (open access preprint) medRxiv
• Police end rule-breaking Wellingborough house party with birthday boy handed fine Northamptonshire Telegraph

Cost of constipation still rising in most English regions

Cost of constipation still rising in most English regions The Cost of Constipation report published by the multidisciplinary organisation, the independent Bowel Interest Group, reveals that the cost of avoidable emergency admissions to hospital because of constipation is rising year-on-year in most English regions.

Useful resources on implementing best practice bowel management can be found here. 

Saving lives, improving mothers’ care: lessons learned to inform maternity care from the UK and Ireland Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity 2016-18

Saving lives, improving mothers’ care: lessons learned to inform maternity care from the UK and Ireland Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity 2016-18 This report examines the care received by women who die during or up to a year after pregnancy and covers all pregnancy-associated deaths involving UK women between 2016 and 2018. The results indicate that whilst maternal death is still rare in the UK, there are some important actions identified to prevent women from dying in the future. MBRRACE-UK

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• Perinatal Confidential Enquiry: stillbirths and neonatal deaths in twin pregnancies MBRRACE-UK

Why £2k would make us stay: UNISON survey of NHS staff

Why £2k would make us stay: UNISON survey of NHS staff The survey was launched on 11 December 2020 and ran for a month, gaining around 10,500 responses from staff directly employed in the NHS across the UK. The survey was conducted as part of ongoing work to inform UNISON’s campaign for a minimum £2,000 pay rise for all NHS staff. 

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• The net Exchequer impact of increasing pay for Agenda for Change staff London Economic
• Pay rise immediately would reassure undervalued staff to stay in NHS UNISON
• Government would recover 81% of cost of pay rise for NHS England staff – report The Guardian
• Government must ‘gift exhausted NHS staff pay rise,’ unions say The Independent
• Health union puts pressure on PM to speed up pay rise for Northamptonshire's NHS heroes Northampton Chronicle and Echo

Coronavirus: long Covid

Coronavirus: long Covid This briefing provide an overview of long Covid, the impacts of this condition and the development of clinical guidance and services for those affected. It also provides links to further reading and Parliamentary material. House of Commons Library 

NHS COVID jabs available at rugby ground, racecourse, food court and cathedral

NHS COVID jabs available at rugby ground, racecourse, food court and cathedral NHS staff will start delivering COVID vaccinations at a rugby ground, racecourse, food court and cathedral as the biggest immunisation programme in health service history grows. Ten new large-scale Vaccination Centres, capable of jabbing thousands of people a week, are opening their doors in every health region across the country. NHS England 

Covid-19: Lockdown restrictions could relax once 'top 4 cohorts' vaccinated

Covid-19: Lockdown restrictions could relax once 'top 4 cohorts' vaccinated The government said that the UK could begin to reopen from the beginning of March, once the top 4 risk groups are protected from Covid-19. 

But Vaccine Deployment Minister Nadhim Zahawi told the BBC that there were still a "number of caveats" to reopening, and that we don't yet know the impact vaccination has on the transmission of the virus. BBC News 

See also:

• Covid vaccine: WHO warns of 'catastrophic moral failure' BBC News
• Did we see a Christmas coronavirus spike? BBC News
• Military medics to help in Shropshire hospitals due to staff shortages BBC News
• Covid-19: New variants may mean vaccines need regular updates The Daily Mail
• Covid UK: Boris Johnson criticised amid 'vaccine postcode lottery' The Daily Mail
• UK coronavirus: Mutations mean lockdowns needed as vaccine rolls out The Daily Mail
• Analysis: Why the second Covid wave is nothing like the first The Daily Telegraph
• Rare inquests into UK Covid deaths raise concerns over care failings The Guardian
• As many as six in 10 UK care home residents still awaiting Covid jab The Guardian
• Coroner's Covid findings stoke calls for inquiry into pandemic policy The Guardian
• Coronavirus: NHS critical care beds could reach their limit this week as hospital admissions continue to rise iNews
• How to find your NHS number: Where to get the 10-digit code, and why you don't need it to book Covid vaccine iNews
• UK leading world in getting vaccines to poorer countries, insists Hancock after WHO warning The Independent

Oxford research tackles threat of antibiotic resistance

Oxford research tackles threat of antibiotic resistance Oxford University is opening a new research institute dedicated to tackling resistance to antibiotics.

The university says this is one of the the biggest rising threats to global health, already causing 1.5 million deaths per year worldwide.

The institute will be funded by £100m donated by the Ineos chemical company. BBC News

One in four young people ‘unable to cope with life’ since start of Covid pandemic, study finds

One in four young people ‘unable to cope with life’ since start of Covid pandemic, study finds One in four young people feel they have been “unable to cope with life” since the start of the pandemic, with the unemployed more likely to feel anxious and depressed, a new study suggests. The Independent

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• Young people "unable to cope with life" since pandemic Prince's Trust
• Lockdown mental health: Tips for helping your child BBC News

Hospitals in England told to keep performing urgent cancer surgery

Hospitals in England told to keep performing urgent cancer surgery NHS bosses have instructed hospitals to keep performing urgent cancer surgery despite Covid pressures, after a growing number cancelled procedures because they did not have enough intensive care beds or available staff.

They have told England’s regional directors of cancer to ensure treatment of people who need cancer surgery within four weeks gets the same priority as care of patients who have Covid. The Guardian