Coventry & Warwickshire COVID-19 Portal

 

Primary Care Coronavirus briefing – Coventry and Warwickshire – 5 May 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 

• Item 1: Briefing from University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and NHS Birmingham and Solihull Clinical Commissioning Group centres around the restoration of services at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust: Briefing from UHB and BSOL CCG.docx

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 05.05.2020

• 1,907 cases now confirmed in Coventry and Warwickshire (+31 / +1.7% from yesterday)

• 144 of these are currently admitted (+3 / +2.1% from yesterday)

• 739 beds still available (-4 / -0.5% from yesterday)

• 9 ITU beds occupied by Covid patients (-1 / -10.0% from yesterday)

• 401 reported deaths in a hospital setting (+6 / +1.5% from yesterday)

Care Home position as at 05.05.2020

• 160 Covid related deaths (note some of these deaths may have occurred outside of the home and so may be counted in the figure above)

• 421 Care Home deaths in total

• 428 confirmed cases 

Confirmed care home cases broken down by CCG:

o Coventry & Rugby: 180

o South Warwickshire: 163

o Warwickshire North: 85

LATEST LOCAL UPDATE

1. Restoration of services at UHB

The attached briefing from University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and NHS Birmingham and Solihull Clinical Commissioning Group centres around the restoration of services at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB). (Attachment: Briefing from UHB and BSOL CCG.docx)

2. Coventry GP lunchtime meeting – all welcome

Despite this being a Coventry GP session, GPs from all localities are welcome to join.

On Wednesday 6 May 2020 at 1.00 pm via Zoom. Session topics include: Gastroenterology changes in times of Covid-19 with Dr Nicola Burch, Consultant Physician Gastroenterology, UHCW who will discuss the new pathway for triaging 2WW GI pathways at UHCW during the pandemic period with time for questions and Renal changes in times of Covid-19 with Dr Sarah Grieve, Consultant Nephrologist, UHCW who will then discuss how Covid-19 is involved in acute kidney injury and other renal issues. The meeting can be accessed by Zoom at the following link.

LATEST UPDATES FOR EACH PLACE

UPDATES FOR Coventry and Rugby – 5 May 2020 

No updates this issue.

UPDATES FOR South Warwickshire – 5 May 2020 

No updates this issue.

UPDATES FOR Warwickshire North – 5 May 2020 

No updates this issue.

LATEST NATIONAL PICTURE 

 

• As reported at 5.30pm on 4 May 2020, 1,291,591 people have been tested in the UK and 190,584 were confirmed as positive. The number of COVID-19 associated deaths in the UK is 28,734. (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 24,332.)  

• The coronavirus press conference on 4 May 2020 delivered by Matt Hancock, Health Secretary on the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic can be viewed on YouTube.  

• The press conference slides and datasets used by Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England are available to read.

• The latest government advice on coronavirus is available online.

COMMUNICATIONS FROM NHS ENGLAND

3. NHS England Primary Care Bulletin – new edition – 5 May

COVID-19: latest guidance for general practice is issued in the NHS England Primary Care Bulletin (5 May) and in this issue includes an update on shielding patients for general practice, the role of physiology and oximetry webinar and details of a letter sent to all primary care from the United Kingdom’s CMOs and Medical Directors of Public Health England and NHS England thanking all healthcare staff for their efforts in responding to the COVID-19 epidemic. 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/. 

4. Digital Primary Care Webinars this Week

Digital Primary Care Webinars – CCAS

Tuesday, 5 May 2020, 17:00 to 18:00

The Digital Primary Care Team at NHSX are delivering a series of webinars detailing the different digital and transformational programmes being rolled out across the NHS during COVID-19 and beyond. This first webinar will look at the COVID Clinical Assessment Service (CCAS). 

Register for this webinar

Using EPS in response to COVID-19

Thursday, 7 May 2020, 4:30 to 5:00

This webinar from NHSX is to help you make the most out of the Electronic Prescription Service during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Register for this webinar

We hope you can join these webinars. If you would like to keep up to date with further webinars you can do so from our FutureNHS workspace Digital Primary Care. If you are not already a member and would like to be please email england.digitalfirstprimarycare@nhs.net and request an invitation. 

5. Primary Care Webinar

 

The next primary care webinar is on Thursday, 7 May between 5pm and 6.30pm with a focus on an extended question and answer session. The link to join, via Microsoft Teams, is here.

 

6. 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

Please note the dates for the upcoming webinars.

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In the meantime, the latest guidance for primary care can be found here: https://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/primary-care/