Homeless people are to be prioritised in the vaccination effort, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has announced, based on the fact they are more likely to suffer from adverse health conditions and have more limited access to medical care. “It’s so important that nobody gets left behind in this national effort,” Mr Hancock said in a…
Science
Camera in a pill: the latest silver bullet?
Capsule camera endoscopy is a diagnostic technology recently introduced to the NHS in an attempt to diagnose colon and bowel cancer earlier. An alternative to a traditional endoscopy, capsule camera technology is a small camera, the size of a vitamin pill (23 mm), which a patient swallows. As the capsule travels through the body, it…
Science
My Nursing Placement on a COVID Ward
My placement was never supposed to be on a COVID ward. However, when a second peak started to become a reality, teams in the hospital had to be re-shuffled to make preparations for the possibility of an influx of patients, and my team were called on to run the new COVID positive ward. I was…
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Coronavirus Update for norfolk and the uk
The country-wide coronavirus death toll stands at 52,745 people as of 17th November. There have been close to 1.5 million cases and 196,559 hospital admissions. Though the number of new cases daily remains high, there has been a decrease over the last few days, bringing it down to just over 20,000. The daily death toll…
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NHS workers stay in empty UEA student accommodation
UEA has offered accommodation to NHS frontline officers during the on-going pandemic. After allowing students early release from their accommodation contracts, UEA has offered the empty rooms to NHS staff. There are currently 68 Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (NNUH) and Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust (NCHC) staff staying in…
Interview
NHS Workers- Compassion amidst COVID-19
“They can’t have any family beside them when they die.” Says an NHS front line worker over the phone to me. She sounds tired, exhausted even. Who can blame her though? Palliative care is no easy job ordinarily, let alone in the midst of a global health pandemic. She continues her point. “So I’m there…
Sport
Students run 10,200km in their gardens to raise money for the NHS
At 8pm on the 30th of April, members of the Cambridge University Air Squadron (CUAS) joined their fellow squadrons around the country in embarking on a 10,200km continuous relay in their gardens. This distance is equivalent to that between the RAF’s most northerly base, RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland, and most easterly base, RAF Akrotiri in…
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Sportspark offers free day-care for NHS workers’ children
UEA Sportspark has re-opened to provide day-care for the children of frontline NHS workers. The Sportspark will open between 8am and 8pm on weekdays. As well as being looked after by staff, the children will also be allowed to make use of the Sportspark’s award-winning facilities, which include an Olympic swimming pool. Volunteers and Sportspark…
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Testing centres and scientific partnerships: how Norwich is fighting coronavirus
A drive-through testing centre at Norwich Research Park is one measure scientists and NHS staff are taking in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Scientists from UEA have joined staff at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH) as well as volunteers from each research organisation at Norwich Research Park to work at isolating and…
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