Coventry & Warwickshire COVID-19 Portal

 

Primary Care Coronavirus briefing – Coventry and Warwickshire – 20 May 2020

 

**Please find below the latest 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  

 

Today’s topics – use the links to jump to each section

 

**Latest local picture**

**Local updates**

**Latest updates for each PLACE (Coventry and Rugby, South Warwickshire, Warwickshire North)**

 

Latest national picture

Communications from NHS England

Actions for Primary Care

 

TODAY’S ATTACHMENTS

 

· Item 1: FAQs to help with practice claim forms for the financial arrangements primary care has put in place in support of Covid-19: Covid Finances FAQ V1.4.docx

 

LATEST LOCAL PICTURE

Please remember: we are issuing the briefing three times a week (Monday, Wednesday and 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.

 

Coventry and Warwickshire COVID position up to 20.05.2020

· 2,167 cases now confirmed in Coventry and Warwickshire (+18 / +0.8% from Monday)

· 105 of these are currently admitted (+2 / +1.9% from Monday)

· 694 beds still available (-106 / -13.3% from Monday)

· 7 ITU beds occupied by Covid patients (+0 / +0.0% from Monday)

· 448 reported deaths in a hospital setting (+1 / +0.2% from Monday)

 

Care Home current position as at 20.05.2020

· 206 Covid related deaths in care homes (+9 / +4.6% from Monday, note some of these deaths may have occurred outside of the home and so may be counted in the figure above)

· 522 Care home deaths in total (+11 / +2.2% from Monday)

· 650 confirmed cases (+37 / +6.0% from Monday)

· Confirmed care home cases broken down by CCG:

o Coventry & Rugby: 314

o South Warwickshire: 227

o Warwickshire North: 109

 

LATEST LOCAL UPDATE

1. Finance FAQs

 

We have developed a series of FAQs which have been put together to help with practice claim forms for the financial arrangements primary care has put in place in support of the Covid-19 response. (Attachment: Covid Finances FAQ V1.4.docx)

 

2. Testing for Coronavirus open to the general public – now including over 5s.

Testing is now open to any member of the public with COVID-19 symptoms by visiting nhs.uk/coronavirus or calling 119 to book a test. The tests are not suitable for children under 5 years old.

 

3. GPES Data for Pandemic Planning & Research (COVID-19) service

GPES Data for Pandemic Planning & Research (COVID-19) has been centrally offered to GP Practices in CQRS and is available for practices to accept.

The purpose of the data collection is to respond to the intense demand for General Practice data to be shared in support of vital planning and research for COVID-19 purposes, including under the general legal notice issued by the Secretary of State under Regulation 3(4) of the Health Service (Control of Patient Information) Regulations 2002 (COPI).

The England General Practitioners Committee (GPC England), of the British Medical Association (BMA) and the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) requested support from General Practitioners for these data collections. They have made the following statement:

The RCGP and BMA support this initiative. The collection set out in this DPN was designed by NHS Digital, with the support of NHSX in response to concerns raised by representatives of the GP profession regarding the current pressure on General Practice to respond to multiple requests to release data in support of COVID-19 planning and research.  

NHS Digital as the data controller for nationally extracted data will ensure that due diligence is carried out regarding any applications made to NHS Digital for access to the data that is being collected. NHSX will be responsible for a single point of contact (SPOC) COVID-19 request process that will triage and prioritise those applications that are applicable to this data set and pass those applications to NHS Digital who will be responsible for assessing and fulfilling the applications; these applications will only be successful if they pass the appropriate ethical, legal and Information Governance requirements to ensure that data is only shared where it is secure, lawful and appropriate to do so. NHS Digital will do this through the Data Access Request Service (DARS) with advice on requests for data from this collection from the Independent Group Advising on the Release of Data (IGARD) along with consultation with profession representatives at RCGP and the BMA.  

Once this data collection has been established, all organisations, including CCGs and Integrated Care Services, are to be re-directed when requesting data from your GP practice for any COVID-19 non-direct care purposes, into the NHSX SPOC for COVID-19 requests process, thereby reducing your workload’. 

A Data Provision Notice had been issued directly to practices and can be found here.    

4. COVID-19 - Temporary changes to Summary Care Record (SCR)

 

EMIS has been working closely with NHS Digital to agree a process to temporarily amend what information is sent as part of a patient’s Summary Care Record. This change will remain until the end of the pandemic. There will be no changes to the way a practice records their consent preferences.

For further information click here.

 

5. Bank Holiday Monday (25 May)

 

Thank you to all practices for working over previous bank holidays to continue to provide services to patients and the public during COVID-19. We are not expecting GP practices to open for the upcoming Whitsun Bank Holiday (25 May) and the normal Out of Hours service will be in place.

 

6. Website update – now live

 

The new CWCovid website has been established to put the information sent via the daily updates into one convenient archive and reference site. We are still making some tweaks so if a link doesn’t quite work do let us know via warnoccg.covid19primarycarecommunications@nhs.net. If you have any comments we would love to hear them.

 

7. Eid and mental health materials

You will be aware that Eid al-Fitr is due to take place this weekend, between the evening of Saturday 23 May and the evening of Sunday 24 May.

 

Public Health England has released materials to support the message “celebrate Eid at home”. You can find these assets, here: https://coronavirusresources.phe.gov.uk/eid/resources/

 

8. Primary care wellbeing survey – reminder

NHS England is looking to understand the current wellbeing of the primary care workforce, and invites you to take part in a short survey undertaken by the Institute for Employment Studies to support this and to support the wider evaluation of the #lookingafteryoutoo primary care coaching offer. The survey will take no longer that five minutes to complete and will contribute to their ongoing response to support your wellbeing. 

 

LATEST UPDATES FOR EACH PLACE

UPDATES FOR Coventry and Rugby – 20 May 2020

No updates this issue.

 

UPDATES FOR South Warwickshire – 20 May 2020

No updates this issue.

 

UPDATES FOR Warwickshire North – 20 May 2020

 

No updates this issue.

                            

LATEST NATIONAL PICTURE

 

· As of 9.00am on 19 May 2020, 2,772,552 people have been tested in the UK, (with 89,784 tests carried out on 18 May) and 248,818 were confirmed as positive. The number of COVID-19 associated deaths in the UK is 35,341. (Please note: there is now an improved daily reporting system for deaths, so that deaths in all settings are included, wherever the individual has tested positive for COVID-19, rather than just those in hospitals. On the old measure there would have been 28,754.) 

· The Rt Hon George Eustice MP gave the 19 May 2020 daily press briefing on the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, available to view online.

· Press conference slides and datasets used by The Rt Hon George Eustice MP and Professor Angela McLean, Deputy Chief Scientific Adviser on 19 May 2020 are available here.

· The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Matt Hancock updated Parliament on the government’s response to coronavirus on 18 May, the transcript is available online.

· The latest government advice on coronavirus is available online.

COMMUNICATIONS FROM NHS ENGLAND

 

9. NHS England Primary Care Bulletin – new edition – 19 May

 

COVID-19: latest guidance for general practice is issued in the NHS England Primary Care Bulletin (19 May) and in this edition has details around testing for coronavirus, NHS People Health and Wellbeing Support, domestic abuse during COVID-19 and the upcoming Bank Holiday on Monday 25 May. This regular COVID-19 Primary Care Bulletin is from Dr Nikki Kanani and Ed Waller and you are encouraged to sign up here: https://www.england.nhs.uk/email-bulletins/general-practice-bulletin/. 

 

10. GP Preparedness Webinar

 

The next primary care webinar is tomorrow, 21 May between 5pm and 6pm and will have a focus on care homes. The link to join, via Microsoft Teams, is here. To submit any questions you have for the general practice webinar in advance using, please use this online form (login required).

 

11. Media enquiries

Our communications team is here to support you if needed. If you are approached by the media, please forward on to your local communications team: agem.communications@nhs.net. Outside of working hours the communications team can be reached via 01522 537887.   

 

ACTIONS FOR PRIMARY CARE

Review the attached COVID finances FAQs.

Do note the times for this next week’s GP preparedness webinar.

Please take time to participate in the primary care wellbeing survey.

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