Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
COVID-19 hospitals in the United Kingdom were temporary hospitals set up in the United Kingdom and overseas territories as part of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.. They principally included the seven NHS England Nightingale Hospitals, NHS Scotland's Louisa Jordan hospital, NHS Wales' Dragon's Heart Hospital, and the Northern Irish Health and Social Care site at Belfast City Hospital, as ...
A paper using data collected in the four weeks up to 21 April 2020 analysed symptoms from 2.45 million people in the UK and 168,000 in the US. [16] As of May 2020, the app had been downloaded by over 3 million people, [ 5 ] including 2 million Britons. [ 17 ]
The UK-wide COVID Symptom Study based on surveys of four million participants, endorsed by authorities in Scotland and Wales, run by health science company ZOE, and analysed by King's College London researchers, [2] publishes daily estimates of the number of new and total current COVID-19 infections (excluding care homes) in UK regions, without ...
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, established 1 November 1991 as Airedale NHS Trust, [2] authorised as a foundation trust on 1 June 2010. [3]Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, established 21 December 1990 as Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital and Community Services NHS Trust, [4] changed its name to The Royal Liverpool Children's National Health Service Trust on 15 March 1996, [5 ...
10 June – The latest Office for National Statistics figures indicate a small rise in the number of COVID-19 cases in England and Northern Ireland, something that is believed to be being driven by the BA.4 and BA.5 strains of the Omicron variant. [397] Statistics for Scotland show an increase in cases from one in 50 to one in 40 over a week. [398]
The COVID-19 pandemic in England put huge pressure on ambulance services. In July 2021 there were 81,685 category one incidents, up 32% in July 2019, and up 16% on the previous high in December 2019. Response time performance for these calls slumped to 8 minutes 33s, against a target of 7 minutes, with a tenth taking more than 15 minutes 15s.
NHS COVID-19 was a voluntary contact tracing app for monitoring the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in England and Wales, in use from 24 September 2020 until 27 April 2023. [1] It was available for Android and iOS smartphones , and could be used by anyone aged 16 or over.
NHS trusts are not trusts in the legal sense but are in effect public sector corporations. Each trust is headed by a board consisting of executive and non-executive directors, and is chaired by a non-executive director. There were about 2,200 non-executives across 470 organisations in the NHS in England in 2015. [2]