Coventry & Warwickshire COVID-19 Portal

 

Primary Care Coronavirus briefing – Coventry and Warwickshire – 10 April 2020 

 

**Please find below the latest daily primary care coronavirus briefing.**

 

Information provided by NHS Coventry and Rugby CCG, NHS South Warwickshire CCG and NHS Warwickshire North CCG in line with Public Health England guidance.

 

This information may change rapidly as the situation develops. For the latest information for primary care, visit: https://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/primary-care

 

1. Hot hubs - update

 

In order to better support primary care with the COVID-19 situation, the CCGs have been working closely with the relevant Primary Care Networks and Federations/Alliance and LMC at Place to finalise the details of the “hot hubs” assessment centres. There are now a number of hubs in each place: Coventry, Rugby, South Warwickshire and Warwickshire North. 

 

The are available to be referred in to and referrals are being accepted over the Bank Holiday weekend and across the weekend.

 

Also extended access is available.  

 

Place Area Practice Live from

Coventry Coventry Navigation 1 Malling Health at Foleshill Surgery

Monday – Friday: 11:00-14:00, 15:00-18:00 and 18:30-21:30

Saturday 08:00-13:00 and 14:00-19:00

Sunday 08:00-13:00 and 14:00-19:00

 

Bank Holidays as per times above Live

Coventry Sowe Valley Woodend Health Centre

Monday – Friday: 11:00-14:00, 15:00-18:00 and 18:30-21:30

Saturday 08:00-13:00 and 14:00-19:00

Sunday 08:00-13:00 and 14:00-19:00

 

Bank Holidays as per times above Live

Rugby Brownsover Brownsover Medical Practice

Monday – Friday: 09:30-12:00 and 14:00-17:00

 

Bank Holidays as per times above Live

South Warwickshire Stratford

 

Rother House Surgery

Monday – Friday: 12:00-15:00 and 18:30-21:00

Saturday 09:00-13:00

Sunday 09:00-12:00

 

Bank Holidays Friday and Monday: 09:00-21:00 Live

Leamington North and South

Crown Way

Monday – Friday: 15:30-18:00 and 18:30-21:00

Saturday 09:00-13:00

Sunday 09:00-12:00

 

Bank Holidays Friday and Monday: 09:00-21:00 Live

East PCN Southam Clinic

Monday – Friday: 18:30-21:00

Tuesday – 14:30 – 16:00 

 

Bank Holiday Monday: 12:00-21:00 Live

Warwick Brese Avenue Branch Surgery

Monday – Friday: 14:00-17:00 and 18:30-21:00

Saturday 09:00-13:00

Sunday 09:00-12:00

 

Bank Holidays Friday and Monday: 09:00-21:00 Live

Kenilworth Smalley Place

Monday – Friday: 15:00-17:00 and 18:30-21:00

Saturday 09:00-13:00

Sunday 09:00-12:00

 

Bank Holidays Friday and Monday: 09:00-21:00 Live

Arden PCN Henley-in-Arden Asthetics Clinic

Monday – Friday: 15:00-18:00 and 18:30-21:00

Saturday 09:00-13:00

Sunday 09:00-12:00

 

Bank Holidays Monday: 15:00-21:00 Live from Monday 13th April 

Warwickshire North Polesworth Polesworth Health Centre Live from Thursday 16th April subject to Demand

Galley Common Galley Common Medical Centre

Monday – Friday: 13:00-17:30 and 18:30-21:30

Saturday 13:00-18:00

Sunday 13:00-18:00

 

Bank Holidays Friday 10th April: 13:00-17:30 

Monday 13th April: 13:00-17:30 and 18:30-21:30 Live

 

Bank Holiday cover:

 

South Warwickshire Place: 

Please note that all the South Warwickshire CCG 18:30-21:00 Good Friday and Easter Monday and all day Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th April Hot Hub sessions are covered by Extended Access and therefore any Hub is available to all patients across South Warwickshire – not just to those within that PCN, although in line with social distancing we are encouraging patients to attend their local base. 

 

LATEST LOCAL PICTURE

 

Please remember: we are issuing daily (Monday to Friday) communications via: warnoccg.covid19primarycarecommunications@nhs.net. We would also ask that if you have questions or concerns relating to the current situation around coronavirus and COVID-19 you use the same address: warnoccg.covid19primarycarecommunications@nhs.net. Please keep us updated with any issues that you may be having so we can try to address them.

 

Local picture (as of 9 April)

• 757 cases now confirmed in Coventry and Warwickshire (+23 / +3.1% from yesterday)

• 304 of these are currently admitted (-2 / -0.7% from yesterday)

• 668 beds still available (+7 / +1.1% from yesterday)

• 138 reported deaths in a hospital setting (+28 / +25.5% from yesterday) 

 

Note – ITU figures not available in today’s daily report, hence not included above.

2. Staff testing - update

There has been a separate email on staff testing for the bank holiday sent to a lead at each practice.

 

3. UHCW Outpatient Guidance for Primary Care during COVID-19

 

2 Week Wait Referrals

ALL 2 week wait referrals will be accepted. Referrals will be triaged by a consultant as normal.

 

We are aware there have been issues with this, we are urgently following up on any 2WW referrals that have been identified as being rejected.

 

All other new referrals

We very much appreciate the support of Primary Care in ensuring that routine patients do not get referred during this time, however we will continue to accept ALL other referrals. They will fall into the following category:

 

1. Clinically urgent and booked into an urgent slot (this will be either virtually or in some cases, face to face).

 

2. Placed on a monitoring list and flagged (each speciality will be reviewing their monitoring list on a regular basis). No re-referral required for this group of patients by GP.

 

3. Managed with advice and guidance to the GP and patient

 

4. Assessed as low priority and referred back to their GP (we are expecting these to be low in volume). These will need to be re-referred at a later date, as needed.

 

All Appointment Cancellations

We are holding a central log of all appointments that have been cancelled (including those on the NHS eReferral Service). We will rebook patients into either virtual or face to face appointments via our booking team. We do not expect patients who have been cancelled by the hospital to be re referred. We have texted all patients that had an appointment booked, asking them not to attend the hospital and to confirm we will be in contact with them by phone.

 

We are currently working with primary care colleagues in the RSS team to review how we can support the management of routine referrals and communication will be sent out in due course.