Coventry & Warwickshire COVID-19 Portal

 

Primary Care Coronavirus briefing – Coventry and Warwickshire – 6 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: Attachments relating to the update on Shielding Patients for Primary Care, an updated version of the “At Risk Patient” Letter, and GP Supporting info for shielding and non-shielding patients: MIDS4374 - Cascade to all GPs - Updates on Shielding Patients for Primary Care, At Risk Patient Letter and GP Supporting info for shielding and non-shielding patients; C0429_GP supporting info for shielding and non-shielding patients (002).pdf; At Risk_patient letter_CEV1c_ FINAL DRAFT3.docx

• Item 2: Bereavement support pack during COVID-19: Bereavement pack_v1.pdf

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 06.05.2020

• 1,950 cases now confirmed in Coventry and Warwickshire (+43 / +2.3% from yesterday)

• 142 of these are currently admitted (-2 / -1.4% from yesterday)

• 656 beds still available (-83 / -11.2% from yesterday)

• 8 ITU beds occupied by Covid patients (-1 / -11.1% from yesterday)

• 406 reported deaths in a hospital setting (+5 / +1.2% from yesterday)

Care Home position as at 06.05.2020

(based on data recorded since Mid-March 2020)

• 169 Covid related deaths in care homes (+9 / +5.6% from yesterday, note some of these deaths may have occurred outside of the home and so may be counted in the figure above)

• 451 Care home deaths in total (+30 / +7.1% from yesterday)

465 confirmed cases (+37 / +8.6% from yesterday)

Confirmed care home cases broken down by CCG:

o Coventry & Rugby: 203

o South Warwickshire: 170

o Warwickshire North: 92

LATEST LOCAL UPDATE

1. An update on Shielding Patients for Primary Care, an updated version of the “At Risk Patient” Letter, and GP Supporting info for shielding and non-shielding patients

The latest update of the Shielded Patient List, based on the NHS Digital GP Extraction Service, has identified a small number of patients who will be advised to shield via a centrally generated letter and text message. Flags will be added to the GP records for these patients along with patients identified by hospital clinicians this week. The addition of flags and distribution of central letters is expected to be complete by Thursday 7 May. You may also receive information relating to this from your system supplier.  

The full notification is attached: MIDS4374 - Cascade to all GPs - Updates on Shielding Patients for Primary Care, At Risk Patient Letter and GP Supporting info for shielding and non-shielding patients; C0429_GP supporting info for shielding and non-shielding patients (002).pdf; At Risk_patient letter_CEV1c_ FINAL DRAFT3.docx

2. Bereavement support pack during COVID-19 

A pack has been designed to support people with bereavement during COVID-19, it includes a lot of useful links to organisations, support services and further information. (Attached: Bereavement pack_v1.pdf)

3. Primary care wellbeing survey

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 – 6 May 2020 

No updates this issue.

UPDATES FOR South Warwickshire – 6 May 2020 

No updates this issue.

UPDATES FOR Warwickshire North – 6 May 2020 

No updates this issue.

LATEST NATIONAL PICTURE 

 

• As reported at 5.30pm on 5 May 2020, 1,383,842 people have been tested in the UK and 194,990 were confirmed as positive. The number of COVID-19 associated deaths in the UK is 29,427. (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 24,735.)  

• The transcript for the coronavirus press conference on 5 May 2020 delivered by Dominic Raab, Foreign Secretary, on the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic is available to read online. The press conference can also be viewed on YouTube.  

• The press conference slides and datasets used by Professor Angela McLean, Deputy Chief Scientific Adviser are available to read.

• UK condemns cyber actors seeking to benefit from global coronavirus pandemic

• The latest government advice on coronavirus is available online.

COMMUNICATIONS FROM NHS ENGLAND

4. NHS England Primary Care Bulletin – new edition – 6 May

COVID-19: latest guidance for general practice is issued in the NHS England Primary Care Bulletin (6 May) and in this issue there is further information on the request for CCGs, PCNs and practices to coordinate pharmacy teams (including CCG employed pharmacists, PCN pharmacists and pharmacists working as part of the Medicines Optimisation in Care Homes programme) to provide support to care homes residents and staff. 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/. 

5. Digital Primary Care Webinars this Week

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 this webinar. 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. 

6. Primary Care Webinar

 

The next primary care webinar is on tomorrow, 7 May between 5pm and 6.30pm with a focus on an extended question and answer session. Please do send in any questions you have in advance using this online form. You can also use this form to submit examples of good practice so that they can share learning with others The link to join, via Microsoft Teams, is here.

 

7. 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 review the shielded patients update in Item 1.