Covid-19: One year on from Northamptonshire's first virus case more than 45000 have had it and 1500 died

Covid-19: One year on from Northamptonshire's first virus case more than 45000 have had it and 1500 died News on March 3 that someone in Northamptonshire had coronavirus was hardly unexpected what had gone on in the previous few months.

Twelve months on, though, more than 45,000 of the county's 750,000 population have tested positive for the virus and more than 1,500 have died. Northampton Chronicle and Echo

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• Covid-19 one year on: "There was possibility to tell everybody to panic but, on balance, our approach was right" says Northampton council leader Northampton Chronicle and Echo
• Covid-19 one year on: How half-term skiing trips gave the virus a foothold in Northamptonshire Northamptonshire Telegraph
• Brazil Covid variant could cause reinfection in 61% of people - and is more transmissible Northamptonshire Telegraph

New Macmillan telephone and online support service launches at KGH

New Macmillan telephone and online support service launches at KGH A new Macmillan telephone and online support service for cancer patients has been launched at KGH.

The service is providing practical, emotional and financial support virtually, by telephone, video call, email, and online and has already helped some 141 people. Northamptonshire Telegraph

Perplexing Presentations (PP)/Fabricated or Induced Illness (FII) in Children Guidance

Perplexing Presentations (PP)/Fabricated or Induced Illness (FII) in Children Guidance This new guidance provides procedures for safeguarding children who present with perplexing presentations and FII and offers practical advice for paediatricians on when and how to recognise it, how to assess risk and how to manage these types of presentations in order to obtain better outcomes for children. Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

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• Children's doctors given fabricated illness guidance BBC News

Frustrated, angry and unfair: staff experiences of DNAR decision-making in 2020

Frustrated, angry and unfair: staff experiences of DNAR decision-making in 2020 This report provides findings and recommendations from BIHR's research with staff members working across health, care and social work, who have shared their experiences of DNAR (Do Not Attempt Resuscitation) decisions. These recommendations focus on both the current Covid-19 context and the wider use of DNAR orders in “ordinary” times, and the need for them to be framed exactly as they are, as human rights issues. British Institute of Human Rights 

Workforce Race Equality Standard, summary briefing on 2020 national findings

Workforce Race Equality Standard, summary briefing on 2020 national findings The 2020 NHS Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) report provides the most comprehensive collation of data available on racial inequalities in the NHS workforce, and at this stage provides the opportunity to analyse trends over a five-year period. NHS Providers 

Official Statistics: Health Inequalities Dashboard: March 2021 data update

Official Statistics: Health Inequalities Dashboard: March 2021 data update The Health Inequalities Dashboard presents data on health inequalities for England, English regions, clinical commissioning groups and local authorities. Public Health England 

Official Statistics: Dementia profile: March 2021 update

Official Statistics: Dementia profile: March 2021 update Updated statistics on dementia prevalence, hospital admissions, care and mortality, at the national and subnational geographical areas in England. Public Health England 

Statement to Parliament: Our vaccination programme is a national success story

Statement to Parliament: Our vaccination programme is a national success story Oral statement by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on the impact of the vaccine roll-out, and efforts to contain the new variant of concern first identified in Manaus in Brazil. Department of Health and Social Care

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• Research and analysis: COVID-19 variants: genomically confirmed case numbers Public Health England
• Guidance: Suspected acute viral respiratory infections: managing outbreaks in schools Public Health England

Covid Brazil variant 'may spread more easily'

Covid Brazil variant 'may spread more easily' The Brazil coronavirus variant now found in the UK appears more contagious and may evade immunity provided by past infection, scientists say.

Experiences from Manaus - the Amazonian city hit hard by the P.1 variant - suggest it could be up to twice as transmissible as earlier Covid there, the first detailed study suggests. BBC News

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• Genomics and epidemiology of a novel SARS-CoV-2 lineage in Manaus, Brazil (preprint) Imperial College London and University of Sao Palo
• Covid vaccine being tested in patients with low immunity  BBC News
• What does Covid testing in schools look like?  BBC News
• Covid and dementia - 'let them see their families'  BBC News
• Britain's Covid vaccines should cut the risk of dying or being hospitalised MORE in younger adults The Daily Mail
• Coronavirus: UK narrows search for missing Brazil variant case to South East The Daily Mail
• Coronavirus: Eight out of England's 10 Covid hotspots have prisons The Daily Mail
• Covid deaths in England and Wales falling fastest among people over 80 The Guardian
• Healthcare professionals in the UK have a moral duty to get the Covid jab | Frances Ryan The Guardian
• Covid: Matt Hancock rules out regional approach to easing lockdown restrictions The Independent

NHS reforms risk sowing confusion and undermining safety, MPs warned

NHS reforms risk sowing confusion and undermining safety, MPs warned A bid for more control over the NHS by ministers risks undermining patient safety and sowing confusion over who is ultimately responsible for services, MPs have been warned. The Independent