Primary Care Coronavirus briefing – Coventry and Warwickshire – 22 April 2020 (Issue 25)
22 April 2020
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Sent on behalf of the COVID-19 Primary Care Incident Management Team for Coventry and Rugby, South Warwickshire and Warwickshire North CCGs
Primary Care Coronavirus briefing – Coventry and Warwickshire – 22 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
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
• STP Master.xlsx (item 2)
• Coventry and Warwickshire changes to local hospital services due to Covid-19 v07 22nd April 2020.pdf (item 3)
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.
Coventry and Warwickshire COVID position up to 22.04.2020
• 1,420 cases now confirmed in Coventry and Warwickshire (+63 / +4.6% from yesterday)
• 221 of these are currently admitted (+4 / +1.8% from yesterday)
• 802 beds still available (+58 / +7.8% from yesterday)
• 22 ITU beds occupied by Covid patients (-1 / -4.3% from yesterday)
• 289 reported deaths in a hospital setting (+15 / +5.5% from yesterday)
Care Home cumulative position up to 22.04.2020
Please note: Care home data is now taken from single source system, so should be live data, and removes duplication and designation of homes – it does however not report deaths or affected cases – this was taken previously from the other sources but wasn’t updated dynamically, and included deaths in hospital – so has been taken off the report.
You will see that confirmed cases have increased significantly – particularly for Coventry. This has been double-checked and is due to the switch to the single source system which will be the source used from now on and should remain consistent.
• 245 confirmed cases (+78 / +46.7% from yesterday, note this number will always be lower than residents affected as once a care home has two cases confirmed testing stops and residents with symptoms are assumed positive and reported in the number of residents affected)
o Confirmed care home cases broken down by area (not CCG):
o Coventry: 108
o South Warwickshire: 81
o North Warwickshire and Rugby: 56
LATEST LOCAL UPDATE
1. Staff testing – results
If you have recently attended the Edgbaston site for staff testing and have not had your results a helpline has now been set up:
The contact details are Helpdesk Number – 0300 303 2713.
Please be prepared to give the following information:
a. details of the site attended
b. your name
c. the date you went for testing
d. car registration
e. mobile phone number
2. Staff testing – how to access
Don’t forget the drive through testing option remains in place for Edgbaston Cricket Ground and you can apply for that option via www.cwcovid.support – the home testing pilot is for those that CANNOT travel or have children aged 5 to 18 in the household that are symptomatic.
There are lot of slots available at the Edgbaston facility. Access to the Ricoh is coming very soon and will include 5 to 18 year olds.
If you are too ill to travel or whole family symptomatic here is a home testing option and is available until Sunday 26th April 2020.
The eligibility criteria is as follows:
NHS worker is symptomatic
Over 18 in same household as key worker
Child (5-18) in same household as key worker is symptomatic
UNDER 5s CANNOT BE TESTED
Symptomatic is having a fever and/or a new persistent cough within 5 days or less
This test includes 5 to 18 year olds.
Please read the criteria above and then IF you have staff who meet the criteria can you please send the following information to sowaccg.cwcovidstaffreq@nhs.net by 12 noon daily.
Please use HOME TESTING REQUEST in your email header
Please provide the following information for the key worker within the household:
1. First Name
2. Surname
3. National Insurance Number (KEY WORKER NI NUMBER REQUIRED, REQUESTS WITHOUT NI NUMBER WILL NOT BE PUT FORWARD)
4. Email address (please ensure the one you are monitoring - this can be a personal account, as this will be used to send instructions)
5. Employer Organisation
The availability of staff testing can be summarised below:
Location Eligibility Availability
Edgbaston Over 18s only (this may change, if it does, we will advise) Now – accessed via via www.cwcovid.support
Ricoh Arena (Coventry) To be confirmed To go live this week
CQC An email has been shared with practices
Home testing for families Up to 5 in the household, for ages 5 years and over To be offered for one week only (see attachment: STP Master.xlsx)
The following criteria must be applied before returning to work:
3. Changes to local hospital services due to Covid-19
Current version: v07.5, Correct as of 22nd April 2020. Please disregard previous versions.
Your local NHS is working hard to tackle the ongoing COVID-19 situation. However, in order to ensure we are doing everything we can to protect our population, our staff and our NHS, and ensure we have enough staff where they’re needed most, we have had to make some difficult decisions about our non-urgent services, including cancelling appointments or temporarily closing services.
Please note: all providers are committed to contacting patients affected by these temporary service changes and you do not need to contact the hospital booking officers unless it is urgent. (Attachment: Coventry and Warwickshire changes to local hospital services due to Covid-19 v07.5 22nd April 2020.pdf)
4. Cyber Security support
We have heard reports that a cyber attack on a large scale is now rated at “Highly Likely” with cyber criminals using Covid-19 as an angle to cause damage. With this in mind, we ask that you beware of emails with attachments for free things for members of the NHS or even some Covid related information. You should make you are only looking to interact with information from trusted sources only and be particularly cautious when on work computers.
The cyber security mailbox can be reached via cybersecurity@nhs.net or Victoria Axon, NHS Digital Regional Cyber Lead at Victoria.axon1@nhs.net / 07712 693195.
LATEST UPDATES FOR EACH PLACE
UPDATES FOR Coventry and Rugby – 22 April 2020
5. Coventry Safeguarding Newsletter
Coventry Safeguarding Children Partnership (CSCP) has shared their April Newsletter with us asking that is distributed to Primary Care please. The newsletter is available to download.
UPDATES FOR South Warwickshire – 22 April 2020
6. Ophthalmology Contacts
The number below is for patients to use should they have an ophthalmic problem (that does not require A&E).
The direct number for patients to call for ophthalmology triage is 0330 100 4730.
Our community provider (CHEC) will triage and assess all patients that call with an ophthalmology concern and either give them self-care advice, conduct a remote consultation with a qualified optometrist/doctor or, where absolutely necessary, arrange a face to face appointment with one of a few optometrists operating in the community with appropriate processes including PPE etc.
Where a secondary care referral is necessary, they will arrange this directly or signpost to Eye Casualty if appropriate.
UPDATES FOR Warwickshire North – 22 April 2020
No updates this issue.
LATEST NATIONAL PICTURE
• As of 9am on 21 April 2020, 535,342 people have been tested in the UK and 129,044 were confirmed as positive. As of 5pm on 20 April 2020, of those hospitalised in the UK, 17,337 have died. (Please note: the figures for test results and for deaths are compiled from different sources. This is why the figures for deaths are reported from an earlier point in time than the figures for test results.)
• The latest government advice on coronavirus is available online.
• The Health Secretary, Matt Hancock spoke at a press conference on 21 April outlining the governments response to coronavirus. The briefing can viewed on YouTube.
• The press conference slides and datasets used by Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, Deputy Chief Medical Officer on 21 April are available to read.
COMMUNICATIONS FROM NHS ENGLAND
7. NHS England Primary Care Bulletin – new edition – 21 April
COVID-19: latest guidance for general practice is issued in the NHS England Primary Care Bulletin (21 April) and includes an update on reducing the burden of fit notes during Covid-19. 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/.
8. GP Preparedness webinar
The next primary care webinar, with Dr Nikki Kanani and Ed Waller, is tomorrow, 23 April from 5pm and 6pm (via Microsoft Teams), the link to access is here. It will feature a range of updates including a focus on homeless and inclusion health with Olivia Butterworth, Lead on Homeless Health COVID-19 response for NHS England and NHS Improvement and Dr Caroline Shulman, GP in Homeless and Inclusion Health Kings Health Partnership Pathway Homeless team & Honorary Senior Lecturer, UCL.
9. 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
Share details of staff testing sites that are available.
Review the guidance on reducing the burden of fit notes during Covid-19 in the primary care bulletin.
Note details of tomorrow’s webinar.
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