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Northamptonshire neighbourhoods turning down Covid jabs as seven more die with virus in NGH and KGH

Northamptonshire neighbourhoods turning down Covid jabs as seven more die with virus in NGH and KGH Infection control teams confirm "significant number" .of virus patients have not been vaccinated.

Two Northamptonshire neighbourhoods are in the bottom ten out of more than 570 in the East Midlands with the lowest vaccine take-up. Northamptonshire Telegraph 

Kettering General Hospital aims to double army of volunteers

Kettering General Hospital aims to double army of volunteers Kettering General Hospital aims to double its volunteer workforce and develop a wide range of exciting new posts for people of all ages over the next few months. Northamptonshire Telegraph

Only half of Northamptonshire GP appointments held in person in June 2021, data reveals

Only half of Northamptonshire GP appointments held in person in June 2021, data reveals Only half of GP appointments in Northamptonshire were held face-to-face after major steps to ease coronavirus restrictions went ahead, figures reveal. Northampton Chronicle and Echo

NHS performance summary: June-July 2021

NHS performance summary: June-July 2021 NHS England published the latest data on key activity and performance measures for June and July of this year. Here we show some of these statistics and how they compare with previous trends. Nuffield Trust

See also: 

• Figures highlight difficult juggling act facing the NHS as COVID cases remain high The Health Foundation
• The waiting list stands at 5.4 million The King's Fund
• Covid and backlog pressure on NHS causing alarming situation in emergency care Nuffield Trust

What has the Covid-19 pandemic taught us about public health messaging?

What has the Covid-19 pandemic taught us about public health messaging? I joined The King’s Fund in 2020, coming from an academic background in a university department where I worked on research about how to encourage people to adopt healthy behaviours. With the Covid-19 pandemic in full swing, I saw several familiar faces from academia appearing in national media sharing and explaining public health messages. Academic researchers are rarely so visible, but during the pandemic they were in demand as the public face of the race to minimise the impact of Covid 19.

It made me wonder how academic health researchers could have more direct influence on public health in future. The King's Fund 

Seven in ten young people aged 18 to 29 vaccinated with a first dose

Seven in ten young people aged 18 to 29 vaccinated with a first dose Over 70% of young people aged 18 to 29 in England have received a first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, the latest figures show, providing vital protection against infection and serious illness from the virus. Department of Health and Social Care

See also: 

• Official Statistics: National flu and COVID-19 surveillance reports: 2021 to 2022 season Public Health England

Huge gulf in hospitals' ability to contain Covid

Huge gulf in hospitals' ability to contain Covid A major analysis of the spread of Covid within hospitals has shown a massive gulf in ability to contain the virus during the first wave.

Overall, more than one in 10 people in hospital with Covid actually caught the virus while they were there.

But the analysis of 314 UK hospitals showed that ranged from just one in 100 cases caught in hospital, to more than one in four. BBC News

See also: 

• Hospital-acquired SARS-CoV-2 infection in the UK's first COVID-19 pandemic wave (open access) The Lancet
• Covid booster: US approves third jab for the immunocompromised BBC News
• Moderna's Covid vaccine DOES protect against Indian 'Delta' variant The Daily Mail
• Britain's daily Covid cases jump by 10% in a week to 33,074 The Daily Mail
• Britons should get a different Covid vaccine as their booster, SAGE adviser says The Daily Mail
• One in 10 UK patients caught Covid in hospital in first wave, finds study The Guardian
• Covid to ‘rip’ through schools unless safety measures brought in immediately, ministers warned The Independent

Diabetes ‘wakeup call’ as 1,500 children in England have type 2

Diabetes ‘wakeup call’ as 1,500 children in England have type 2 Charity says government must do more to tackle childhood obesity with one in three now overweight

Hundreds of children and teenagers in England have type 2 diabetes, data shows, with charities describing the findings as a “worrying wakeup call” and urging that childhood obesity be tackled.

Type 2 diabetes is historically only seen in people over the age of 40, but data for 2019-20 revealed that the condition now affects 1,560 people aged 18 or under. The Guardian 

Sajid Javid warns NHS waiting list will keep rising after hitting a record 5.45MILLION last month

Sajid Javid warns NHS waiting list will keep rising after hitting a record 5.45MILLION last month England's record-high NHS waiting list will only continue to rise in the wake of the Covid crisis, the Health Secretary warned today.

Sajid Javid said at least 7million people who 'ordinarily would have come forward' for medical treatment stayed away during the pandemic.

Health chiefs now want those patients to 'come back' but accept it will cause a huge increase in demand that will cause waiting lists to rise. The Daily Mail

 

See also:

• Sajid Javid says NHS waiting lists will rise BBC News

Record 1 million 999 calls made to NHS in July

Record 1 million 999 calls made to NHS in July More than a million 999 calls were made to ambulance services in July – the highest number ever recorded – as the NHS battles a summer crisis in patient demand.

The latest data shows major A&E departments saw their second-highest ever numbers of patients in July, while paramedics were sent out to 82,000 emergencies last month, 8,000 more than the record set in June. The Independent