This is our weekly bulletin and will be issued every Wednesday. Please use this bulletin and cascade arrangements within care and corporate groups to guide your actions. We are determined to reduce avoidable harm and death in the people we are taking care of. Kindness remains the guiding principle of all the actions in our work to tackle the virus – kindness in how we look after patients, visitors, and one another.
Numbers not statistics: Today’s totals (Wednesday 1 July’s totals)
Number of our patients confirmed with COVID-19 during the pandemic
Number of positive COVID-19 patients who have been discharged during the pandemic
Number of patients who have died in our hospitals who tested positive for COVID-19 during the pandemic
Number of patients entered by the Trust into a COVID-19 research trial to date
Number of COVID-19 positive patients who are inpatients with us today
Number of people who have had antibody tests including partner agency staff
Number of our staff absent due to ill-health or isolation today
1332
(1329)
926
(913)
385
(384)
156
(155)
22
(32)
11108
(9344)
478
(518)
1. Don’t forget to complete your COVID-19 assessment
Our Trust is providing COVID-19 risk assessments for all of our colleagues to help categorise the level of risk to each individual person and enable managers to be provided with the actions they are required to take to keep colleagues safe at work. We launched the risk assessments a few weeks ago and colleagues to date have been able to contact occupational health to have their assessment completed.
Unless you have already had this assessment with occupational health please complete the form here: COVID Risk Assessment Form
Completed risk assessments should be sent to [email protected].
Thank you to the many colleagues (over 2000 of you) who have already completed and sent back their risk assessment form. Anyone who has responded so far should get a response letter from occupational health this week.
All the data is collated and aggregated within occupational health. As an organisation we are required to report nationally on the following:
Number of staff risk-assessed and percentage of whole workforce.
Number of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) staff risk assessments completed, and percentage of total risk assessments completed and of whole workforce.
Percentage of staff risk-assessed by staff group.
Additional mitigation over and above the individual risk assessments in settings where infection rates are highest.
For more information please call 0121 507 3306.
2. Red vs Blue: New ED streaming criteria
Changes to the red/hot and blue/cold ED streaming criteria, as agreed by the ED, acute medicine, respiratory and microbiology teams rolled out yesterday.
Patients presenting with following conditions should be streamed to the RED stream:
1. An influenza like illness or fever >37.8, with one of the following respiratory symptoms, which must be acute in onset: a new persistent cough (with or without sputum), hoarseness, nasal discharge or congestion, shortness of breath, sore throat, wheezing or sneezing.
2. A new loss of sense of smell or taste (anosmia) either in isolation or combination with any of the other symptoms.
3. A new onset of persistent cough.
4. A new and unexplained shortness of breath.
5. A recent COVID-19 positive test (within last 28 days) with any new systemic or unexplained symptom.
6. History of exposure to a COVID-19 positive patient within the last 14 days and symptomatic with any of the above symptoms (contacted by NHS Test and Trace).
7. Any patient in cardiac arrest, needing AGP ( Airway management/support in low GCS patients or conscious sedation), needing chest procedures (seldinger/surgical drain) should be streamed to the RED
The following patients can be streamed to the BLUE stream :
1. Patients known to have COPD/asthma or cardiac failure presenting with sym...
