Deaths & Recoveries
A TOTAL of 111 patients with coronavirus have now died at York NHS trust hospitals – but more than 170 have been discharged after treatment. It said 69 patients had died at York Hospital, which is an increase of 19 on this day last week.
Home deliveries
A list of “local and independent food out lets near you” leaflet is currently being delivered by Royal Mail to all residents. The list is far from comprehensive particularly in west York. Ward Councillors should have taken responsibility for ensuring that all every store offering home delivery – including takeaways – was included.
NHS is open
There are concerns that fewer people contacting the NHS for non-coronavirus related conditions could create future problems. As a result, the NHS are reminding people they are very much “open for business” and people should continue to contact them with any health problems they may have.
Residents should contact the NHS by phone or online in the first instance. We have attached key messages from the NHS. This document includes more information about the NHS “open for business” campaign, information on prescriptions, vaccinations, strokes, heart attack cancer and much more. Please share this information where possible.
| You can still contact your GP, 111 online or call 111 for help. If you are told to go to hospital, you must go so the NHS can give you the care you need. www.nhs.uk |
Dentists
Dentists have stopped providing routine dental care because of the coronavirus pandemic. If people are in need of urgent dental care they should first contact their usual dentist who should be able to triage them over the telephone and give appropriate advice. If they are not registered with a local dentist they need to contact NHS 111 for advice. Out of hours (evenings and weekends) people should contact NHS 111.
Printed information for residents
The Council says that “our next resident direct mail focuses on health and wellbeing and should be arriving on doorsteps from Friday this week. It will also include a scam leaflet to offer residents advice on how to protect themselves from scams”.
Move the masses
One of the many incredible voluntary and community organisations we are working with is ‘Move the Masses.’
They have today released their latest figures of how much support they are offering across the city. In the past four and a half weeks they have:
- Delivered 758 prescriptions
- Made 116 hours worth of welfare calls
- Paired up 156 people to receive calls and letters.
Their latest tweets are available at https://twitter.com/MTMcharity/status/1254701000197365760.
We pass on a number of call from our helpline to move the masses. This is just one example of several incredible organisations working together to help and protect residents.
Ask a question at the daily government briefing
The government has announced that from today it will answer one question from a member of the public at the daily coronavirus (COVID-19) press conference.
Those asking a question must be over 18 and if your question is chosen, a cabinet minister will answer it during the live broadcast. Questions will be reviewed at midday on the day of the press conference. Only one question will be selected* each day and the Government has advised the public that Ministers will not see the question before the press conference and that questions are chosen by an independent polling organisation, with no involvement from the government.
Residents can ask their question at https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/ss/govuk-coronavirus-ask/
*So you would have a rather better chance of winning the lottery!
