Care home staff are to be involved in a new UEA project to increase the number of staff taking the flu vaccine. In a £1.4 million scheme backed by the National Institute for Health Research, UEA researchers are looking at ways to encourage care home staff to take the flu vaccine. The FluCare project hosted…
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The NHS Charity Case
Over the past two years, the NHS has been facing the most unimaginable scenes possible. It therefore is not surprising that it did not take long for the effects of an under-funded system to start showing its cracks once again. Not only were we witness to the images of NHS workers lacking the essential PPE…
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Experts at UEA Predict Rising Cases May Allow Virus to Evolve Into More Transmissible Variants
This discovery comes as a new article in the Journal ‘Virulence’ warns the lack of measures may allow for new virus mutations, resistant to vaccines. Experts at the University of East Anglia and the Earlham Institute suggest these rising cases, while restrictions are easing, allow opportunities for the virus to spread, and therefore evolve into…
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Homeless given priority in vaccination effort – Health Secretary
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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