[Cherie]

MOT extension for 6 months from 30th March 2020

https://metro.co.uk/2020/03/25/drive...h-30-12452991/

[Cherie]

Target of 250,000 volunteers now exceeded

405,000 now signed up


register as an NHS volunteer here: https://www.goodsamapp.org/NHS.

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by Cherie

MOT extension for 6 months from 30th March 2020



https://metro.co.uk/2020/03/25/drive...h-30-12452991/

Not sure about this one, there'll be an awful lot of unfit cars on the road?

We've discovered a fun new health condition our car has: if he's not been fired up for over 24h he really struggles to start at all. Probably in need of an oil change. But this is the first time in well over a year the car hasnt been used every day.

For now we're working round it by firing him up and revving the engine for a bit every day even if we're not going anywhere but I feel like we may need to brave the garage .

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Josy

No chatter in this thread please, feel free to use the other thread for that, this is solely for updates

.

[James]

Coronavirus: NHS capacity 'won't be breached at national level'

By Rachel Schraer

Health reporter

1 hour ago


The NHS should be able to cope with the coronavirus outbreak now the country is in lockdown, according to infectious diseases expert Prof Neil Ferguson.

Keeping people inside and increasing NHS staff and beds would prevent intensive care units (ICUs) from being overwhelmed nationally, he said.

There could still be some difficulties at a local level, he told MPs.

But there was now a "reasonable degree of certainty" the government measures would put the epidemic into decline.

'Extremely stressed'

"This current strategy being adopted now - we think that in some areas of the country ICUs will get very close to capacity but it won't be breached at a national level," Prof Ferguson told the science and technology MPs' committee on Wednesday.

"There will be areas of the country which are extremely stressed, but we are reasonably confident - which is all we can be at the current time - that, at the national level, we will be in capacity," he said.

Prof Ferguson, a key government adviser on the country's response to the crisis, was responsible for the Imperial College modelling that changed the government's approach.

It found that only the most draconian social-distancing measures would be enough to prevent the health service being overwhelmed and as many as a quarter of a million people dying.

These measures are aimed at completely suppressing the spread of the virus.

Critical care capacity

When the researchers looked at what would happen if the government tried to just slow the spread of the epidemic (known as 'mitigation'), they found ICUs would be eight times over capacity.

Since that research was done, the NHS has put new plans in place making it better able to cope. These plans would mean a 'mitigation' strategy would leave the health service's critical care facilities three times over capacity, Prof Ferguson said.

The combination of those NHS plans and keeping people in their homes is what is predicted to bring demand down to a level hospitals can manage.

There would be some resurgence of cases later, Prof Ferguson said, but these local outbreaks could hopefully be kept at a low level through more intensive testing.

He told the committee of MPs that the latest research suggested as many as half to two-thirds of deaths from coronavirus might have happened this year anyway, because most fatalities were among people at the end of their lives or with other health conditions.

Normal life

The peak of demand for intensive care is expected to come in two to three weeks.

The challenge the UK, and other countries, would then face, Prof Ferguson said, was how to move from a complete lockdown to a situation where some semblance of normal life could be allowed to restart, while still keeping coronavirus cases low.

Part of this would be about significantly increasing the numbers of people being tested, until a vaccine could be found.

But, Prof Ferguson added, the UK did not currently have the capacity to test on the level of countries such as South Korea.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52035615

[arista]

But, Prof Ferguson added, the UK did not currently have
the capacity to test
on the level of countries such as South Korea.

[Kizzy]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-a9427656.html

[Cherie]

Briefing 25th March 2020

Youtube video

[Cherie]

Clap for the NHS at 8pm tonight 26/03/2020

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/heal...-a4398106.html


People in the UK are being encouraged to show their appreciation for the country's nurses and doctors fighting the coronavirus pandemic by taking part in a huge round of applause.
At 8pm tonight, people at home are encouraged to clap from doors, windows, gardens and balconies to set off an applause for NHS staff working on the frontline of the crisis.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Every NHS worker I've seen comment on this (and my wife knows a LOT of nurses):

"We don't want you to clap out of your door, we want better pay and working conditions when this is all over."

Sorry for commenting on the no-commenty thread but there's nowhere else for this one.

you could take it to the other thread I can see you hate being told what to do but just stop ****ing posting in here

[Cherie]

Youtube video

[michael21]

From 1/4/20 contactless payment limited will go up from £30 to £45 to help fight the coronavirus

[michael21]

All nhs staff to get free parking

[Cherie]

Update 27th March 2020

Youtube video

[Cherie]

Some banks are now cancelling overdraft fees for a 3 month period

[Cherie]

NHS frontline staff to be tested from this weekend.

[Cherie]

A breathing aid that can help keep coronavirus patients out of intensive care has been created in under a week.

University College London engineers worked with clinicians at UCLH and Mercedes Formula One to build the device, which delivers oxygen to the lungs without needing a ventilator.

Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) devices are already used in hospitals but are in short supply.

China and Italy used them to help Covid-19 patients.

Forty of the new devices have been delivered to ULCH and to three other London hospitals. If trials go well, up to 1,000 of the CPAP machines can be produced per day by Mercedes-AMG-HPP, beginning in a week's time.

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has already given its approval for their use.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52087002

credit to BOTs

[Cherie]

Youtube video

[Cherie]

20,000 nurses and medics have now come out of retirement

[Cherie]

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...-a9432371.html

Uber will give away hundreds of thousands of free trips and meals to NHS staff working on the frontlines during the coronavirus outbreak.
The taxi and food delivery company said that as of Monday 30 March, it will offer 200,000 complimentary trips and 100,000 meals to medical staff in order to support them while they work with patients who have been infected by Covid-19.

We’re covering 100,000 free meals through Uber Eats, from thousands of restaurants and convenience stores. NHS and HSC staff can choose to order a hot meal from a local restaurant, or essential items from a nearby shop available on the Uber Eats app, all delivered directly to them.

To help keep the NHS and HSC on the move, we’re also committing 200,000 free rides to and from work, which will be available to all staff with a valid NHS or HSC email address.

We want to help reduce the pressure on the heroes on the frontline of the coronavirus crisis, so please share this email with anyone you know who works for the NHS. And while you’re at it, please thank them for all that they do.

Terms and conditions apply. Please see our website for more deta

[Kizzy]

https://www.theguardian.com/money/20...or-coronavirus

[Cherie]

Sainsburys have banned couples from shopping together, this is also in force with all the other supermarkets, parents with children who cannot be left at home can bring their children.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...istancing.html

[Cherie]

update 2nd April 2020

Youtube video

[bitontheslide]

Asda have setup a shopping card scheme where the vulnerable can top up online and allow others to do shopping for them and pay for it with that card https://cards.asda.com/volunteer . They have also introduced "Scan and Go" where customers scan their shopping with their mobile phone and pay for it directly rather than at the till

[Cherie]

A 99-year-old English man has raised nearly £1.5 million for British health workers by attempting to walk the length of his garden one hundred times before his 100th birthday later this month.
Captain Tom Moore, who has used a walker to move around since breaking his hip, said he was grateful to the National Health Service for the treatment he received and wanted to do something in return.
Britain's state-funded NHS is under severe strain as it treats large numbers of people suffering from Covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus.

Medics have been widely praised for their bravery and professionalism during the crisis, including by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who recovered from the virus after being treated by the NHS in a London hospital.
Capt Moore, who turns 100 on 30 April, had hoped to raise £500,000, but his charity campaign has nearly tripled that figure already.
The military veteran, who served in Asia during World War Two, had a message of hope for his compatriots.
"That's the way I think I've always looked at things: tomorrow will be a good day," he said.